Monday, November 17. 2008
IP Storage and VM swap files
Sunday, November 16. 2008
VMware's VP Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will apply that perspective to the new disruptive trend in the market that everyone is calling cloud computing.
In his session, "The Enterprise Cloud: Applications On and Off Premise," Chu will uncover among other things VMware's plan to leverage its technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service providers worldwide. He will explore cloud pitfalls and uncover new methods for delivering applications on or off premise.
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Native VMware management for Zenoss 2.3 Enterprise Edition
Zenoss 2.3 includes improvements in Windows and Java application monitoring as well as native VMware management for Zenoss Enterprise Edition. Version 2.3 is also taking the opportunity to highlight over 30 new ZenPacks developed by the Zenoss community for expert monitoring of Asterisk PBX, Brocade Switches, Cisco Security Appliance, and many more. Zenoss Enterprise features Native, Agentless VMware Monitoring of Entire Virtualization Infrastructure.
- Automatic discovery and inventory of all Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) components including Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, clusters, and VMware data stores.
- Physical and Virtual resource usage and performance (memory, disk, CPU, and more).
- Real-time detection when Virtual Machines move from one VMware host (or ESX Server) to another (VMotion).
- Physical and Virtual performance and availability information correlated and displayed in a single, central web console.
Friday, November 14. 2008
Richard Garsthagen should win Dutch VMUG 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. At a Tech·Ed EMEA TV Interview VMWare's Richard Garsthagen discusses their Hypervisor and their accessibility offer – which includes the software sitting on top of the product. Hear how this is an important aspect which allows you to work with the tools once set up.
At the end of the interview Richard places his VMware sticker at the back of a Microsoft guy ;-) You can also take a peek at the photo’s from the other contesters, but Richard Garsthagen should defenately win the Dutch VMUG sticker action.
Nano-sized Virtual Appliances
The Virtual Appliances at Virtualappliances.net are nano-sized virtual machines for deploying instant infrastructure and applications. They are Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04 based and available for VMware, QEMU, KVM, Parallels, Xen, Virtual Iron, Virtural PC, and Virtual Server. Available Virtual Appliances are a LAMP Server, LAPP Server, Apache Tomcat Server, and Cacti Virtual Appliance. These are the smallest, most functional, and easiest to use Virtual Appliances available. They are certified for use on VMware and Parallels.
At virtualappliances.net you can download infrastructure oriented appliances. They have 5 different appliances available.
- LAMP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/MySQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
- LAPP Server provides an easy to use Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/Python/Perl/PHP development and deployment server.
- Apache Tomcat Server provides a J2EE Java application server.
- Cacti provides the popular network date collection and graphing application.
- NTOP provides the realtime network traffic analysis application.
These appliances are build on Ubuntu Linux. Updates and patches are very easy to manage with the appliances using Ubuntu's own repositories for update management. As well there are hundreds of applications that can be installed on the appliances from the Ubuntu repositories.
VMworld Virtual Pavilion | Join the online chat!
Each room you enter has a room chat, so you are only chatting with those people you can see in the room. Type your text and press enter to send everyone in the room a message. As you move from room to room, you will be able to talk with people in that room. You can invite a person to a room with no one in it, to have a more private conversation. Use the chat window to control pavilion interactions using a series of / (slash) commands.
Broadcasting turned on for all conferences attendees right now, you can broadcast to all rooms by using the one of the many slash commands. Slash commands use the "/" key with a string. To broadcast you can use /b to send you message to all rooms.
You can use the /pm command to send a private message to a user eg. /pm userid message.
Find Users Online You can use the /who command to see everyone who is currently online .
See who else is in this chatroom /who /who chatroom.