Tuesday, October 21. 2008
VMware Podcasts | Managing VMware and Your Enterprise Infrastructure
Speakers: David Friedlander, Senior Product Marketing Manager, VMware
Ryan Day, Group Manager, VMware
Dutch VMUG launched VMware Sticker action
When you sign-up as an attendee for the Dutch VMUG event on the 12th of December you will receive an envelope which contains a VMware sticker. When you place this sticker at the most original place you are eligible to win a Nintendo Wii. Here’s my picture.
Rob de Veij released RVTools 2.0
RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display the version of the installed VMware tools. It also shows if the tools are upgradeable. The button "Upgrade VMware Tools" starts an UpgradeTools_Task for every selected VM. The latest version of the application has new tab pages with virtual machine information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom and floppy drives. With RVTools you now also can disconnect the cd-rom and floppy drives from the virtual machines.
Sunday, October 19. 2008
VMworld Conferences and Virtualization Event Calendar
VMware opened up a new section on their VMworld.com website. You can find and post the announcements of all your virtualization events including conferences, tradeshows, seminars, webinars, webcasts or any related activities in the conferences forum. Be sure to post your entry with full details for the community to share and VMware will add qualified events to the conference calendar. I already posted the the Dutch VMUG event announcement.
Friday, October 17. 2008
TechWiseTV | Accelerating Virtual Machines
Of all of the recent technology trends in the world of enterprise IT, virtualization may be the most profound. Almost every organization is implementing virtualization. However, most have not moved beyond the server consolidation stage. How can you take it to the logical next level, without creating serious management, control, and security issues?
This TechWiseTV episode reveals the expertise and the latest solutions that will enable you to virtualize your entire network infrastructure. Learn how Cisco is delivering the capability to provision and manage services with virtual machine–level granularity. See how these new solutions provide for quality of service, storage management, and security capabilities at the hypervisor layer. Watch TechWiseTV and see the newest virtualization technologies and services, including:
• Cisco VN-Link, which simplifies virtualized and physical environment management by bringing the server and the network closer together than ever before.
• Cisco Nexus 1000V, the first switch to embed a network operating system into the hypervisor, providing network-based segmentation and consistent policy implementation on a virtual machine
basis.
• Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAASv4.1) to accelerate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) traffic, enabling you to more effectively deploy desktop virtualization.
• Virtualization assessment, planning, and design services, available jointly from Cisco and VMware, to help you define the next steps in your virtualization strategy.
Thursday, October 23, 2008, 10-11 a.m. Pacific Time
Here’s a sneak preview
VMware 2009 Roadmap Videos
VMware uploaded five new video’s at YouTube. VMware Extends Virtual Infrastructure into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System over the course of 2009. For more details visit: http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/
Please let them know what you think of these demos!
VMware 2009 Roadmap Video Virtual Center Part 2 (host prof
VMware 2009 Roadmap Video Virtual Center Part 1 (Host Prof
VMware 2009 Roadmap Video Storage VMotion Enhancements
VMware 2009 Roadmap Video - Fault Tolerance (FT)
VMware 2009 Roadmap Video - vNetwork Distributed Switch