YouTube user eitang8 from Israël has created a nice VMware AppSpeed demo.
Saturday, May 29. 2010
Workflows in the Cloud with the VMware Orchestrator plugin
We have developed a native vCO (VMware Orchestrator) Plugin for the vCenter vSphere Client; "The Mightycare vCO PlugIN for vCenter". It’s now possible to define all the needed Services in Workflows and Actions with in the VMware Orchestrator. Once you have designed your Workflows you can integrate these Workflows into the vCenter Plugin and start these Workflows from the vSphere Client. So you can bring all your Administration Tasks or "Services in your Cloud". One Management console for the complete virtual Infrastructure Environment.
What do you think of it? Leave your comment or vision at the following community thread.
Thursday, May 27. 2010
DOSBox 0.74 has been released!
DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any MS-DOS or PC-DOS (referred to commonly as "DOS") application should run in DOSBox, but the emphasis has been on getting DOS games to run smoothly, which means that communication, networking and printer support are still in early development.
DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X...
DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games...
http://www.dosbox.com
Saturday, May 22. 2010
Troubleshooting Virtual Machine snapshot problems
While I was doing a quick scan on the most recent Twitter activity, I noticed one Tweet by William Lam that caught my attention: This is a very nice find, Troubleshooting VM snapshot problems, very extensive doc put together by VMware emp - http://is.gd/ckwDc
The link leads to a real cool troubleshooting guide with everything you want to know about snapshots. It’s written by Ruben Garcia who’s working as a Technical Support Engineer at VMware.
This troubleshooting guide explains basic concepts about Virtual Machine snapshots and different troubleshooting paths depending on the problem. This guide was designed for ESX3.5 and extra considerations have to be taken if working with ESX3.5i or ESX4(i). The formulas and most of the procedures described in this document were created by Ruben as part of a continuous troubleshooting improvement process.
Ruben is also the creator of the SnapVMX utility.
While troubleshooting Virtual Machine (VM) snapshot problems sometimes it is important to retrieve a lot of information in order to take the most appropriate decision in accordance with the situation. That collection and arrangement of information may take a long time especially if the VM has many snapshots.
SnapVMX was created to speed up the troubleshooting process bringing you instantaneously all the information that you need to evaluate the situation and take the correct decision, reducing the downtime to the bare minimum needed to solve the problem, because after all "time is money".
Ruben’s blog can be found at: http://vmutils.blogspot.com/
Saturday, May 15. 2010
Top 5 Free Networking Tools
Did you know that there are several free tools available from SolarWinds? Recently they compiled a list of their customers’ favourite FREE network tools including: Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, TFTP Server, Exchange Monitor, IP Address Tracker and more. Check out their Top 5 Free Tools.
Monday, May 10. 2010
Using Veloxum to optimize your VMware implementation
A short 7 minute video to show you how Veloxum can improve the performance of your VMware environment. When you finish this video you might want to download the software and try it yourself.