| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Opening Price | $37.00 | $35.48 | $35.25 | $36.29 | $35.93 |
Last Trade | $35.76 | $34.89 | $36.03 | $36.38 | $39.83 |
Price Change | $-1.24 | $-0.59 | $0.78 | $0.09 | $3.45 |
% Change | -3.35% | -1.66% | 2.21% | 0.25% | 9.48% |
Day´s High | $37.24 | $36.24 | $36.32 | $36.50 | $41.00 |
Day´s Low | $35.38 | $34.70 | $33.72 | $35.22 | $35.93 |
Volume | 1,824,756 | 2,270,224 | 1,523,826 | 997,889 | 5,036,039 |
Friday, August 15. 2008
Despite the bug, the VMW stock is doing great
VCP LinkedIn group surpasses 1000 member mark
Members of this group have gained the in-depth skills and industry-recognized certification on VMware technology. The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for everyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase his potential for career advancement. If you are a VCP you can join this group.
Eric Sloof created three LinkedIn Groups and would like to invite you to join them. If you don’t know what a LinkedIn group is, here is a short explanation : Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. The VMware LinkedIn Groups offers extra features stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond.
Thursday, August 14. 2008
ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 re-issued
VMware has re-issued the entire ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 release (ISOs, upgrade tar and zip files, and patch bundles). ESX 3.5 Update 2 (build 110268) /ESXi 3.5 Update 2 (build 110271) are available for download.
VMware is experiencing a delay in releasing the new version of ESX/ESXi
VMware would like to inform you that they are experiencing a delay in releasing the new version of ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2. Their testing of this release is taking longer than anticipated. They are now targeting to release the update between 2:00 AM PDT (0700 UTC) August 14 and 8:00 AM (1500 UTC) August 14 PDT. They apologize for the delay. VMware engineering teams are working around the clock to deliver this new version. They will continue to keep you informed of developments until this issue is fully resolved.
In our last update, we referred to an initiative by our support and engineering teams to find an option to apply the patch without the necessity of entering maintenance mode and VMotion of VM’s to other servers, or VM power-off and re-power-on. Our earlier tests have not found a consistently successful way to address this. We continue to investigate this possibility, as we know that it would reduce the maintenance burden on our customers who may not have a patched server available for VMotion.
Tuesday, August 12. 2008
ESX 3.5 U2 license expires on August 12
An issue has been uncovered with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12. VMware engineering has isolated the root cause of this issue and will reissue the various upgrade media including the ESX 3.5 Update 2 ISO, ESXi 3.5 Update 2 ISO, ESX 3.5 Update 2 upgrade tar and zip files in the next 36 hours (by noon, August 13, PST). They will be available from the page: http://www.vmware.com/download/vi. Until then, VMware advises against upgrading to ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2.
Thursday, August 7. 2008
Xtravirt White Paper: VI3.5 in a box
A new white paper which details the installation of ESX 3.5 Update 2 on Workstation 6.5 BETA, Build 99530 and run a fully working Virtual Infrastructure. In 2007, like others in the global VMware community, Xtravirt developed a common methodology to install and run VMware ESX 3.x on VMware Workstation 6 together with a shared storage solution based upon an iSCSI software target. They called it ‘VI3 in a box’. This allowed users and professionals in the IT community to create simple and cost effective VI3 infrastructures to test, learn about and demonstrate these environments.
Upon the release of VMware ESX 3.5 we found that this methodology did not continue to hold true. Although still possible to install ESX 3.5, when attempting to start a nested Virtual Machine on the ESX VM, the ESX VM panics, and a stop message appears. However, with the release of VMware Workstation 6.5, build release 99530, a revised solution now exists. This white paper documents the process to install and configure ‘VI3.5 in a box’. (Via ICT-Freak)