Saturday, January 14. 2012
LG Android running VMware Horizon Mobile hands-on
Deploy a Corporate Profile on Employee-owned Devices Enforce security and compliance policies. With VMware MVP, a personal profile and a corporate profile can securely and simultaneously run on the same device in isolated containers. Corporate applications and data are securely isolated from an employee’s personal profile. Ease Mobility Management Remotely provision, manage and update corporate profiles in a streamlined manner, irrespective of the mobile device. With VMware MVP, employees can connect their own mobile devices to the corporate network from a corporate profile that is provisioned and managed by the corporate IT group. IT administrator can manage mobile end-points and desktop from a single interface.
Check-out LG Android VMware Horizon Mobile hands-on for more details
Thursday, January 12. 2012
Forbes Guthrie has released the vSphere 5 vReference Card
Wednesday, January 11. 2012
VMworld Session - VMware vMotion in VMware vSphere 5: Architecture, Performance & Best Practices
The new and improved VMware vMotion in VMware vSphere 5.0 incorporates a number of enhancements that leverage the power of the solid state drive and 10 gigabit Ethernet technologies that are increasingly adopted in today's datacenters. These enhancements vastly improve both the usability and performance of vMotion. Testing in VMware performance labs shows it is easier than ever to use vMotion to manage even large virtual machines running heavy-duty, enterprise-class applications with minimal overhead. This session will describe the vMotion architecture and the new and enhanced features of vMotion in vSphere 5.0. Performance implications with data from a wide variety of tier 1 application workloads will also be discussed. We will share common pitfalls as well as best practices that enable you to get the maximum benefit from the new and improved vMotion technology.
Video - Metro vMotion in vSphere 5.0
Video - Running vMotion on multiple–network adaptors
White Paper - vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5
Tuesday, January 10. 2012
Voice Over IP (VoIP) Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.0
The majority of business-critical applications such as Web applications, database servers, and enterprise messaging systems have been successfully virtualized, proving the benefits of virtualization for reducing cost and streamlining IT management. However, the adoption of virtualization in the area of latency-sensitive applications has been slow partly due to unsubstantiated performance concerns. By taking VoIP service as an example, this paper demonstrates that vSphere 5 brings the same virtualization benefits to latency-sensitive applications, and vSphere 5 does this while driving good performance. In particular, vSphere 5 delivers excellent out-of-the-box performance in terms of voice quality when running VoIP service. VoIP applications are characterized by latency-sensitivity that dictates audio data be delivered at regular intervals to achieve good voice quality. Irregular delivery may lead to packet drops, severely deteriorating user experience. Therefore, timely processing and delivery of audio data is critically important to VoIP service. In the virtualized environment, however, meeting this requirement for VoIP applications is more challenging due to the additional layer of scheduling virtual machines (VMs) and processing network packets. Despite such challenges, vSphere 5 is able to achieve great performance for VoIP applications thanks to the following reasons. First, vSphere 5 facilitates the highly optimized networking stack and paravirtualized device drivers to minimize virtualization overhead, adding little variance in packet delivery1. The overhead is usually in the order of tens of microseconds that are negligible, especially to VoIP applications, where packets need to be delivered at intervals of tens of milliseconds. Second, vSphere 5 gives each VM a fair share of CPU2, ensuring the predictable processing of audio data even under high CPU contention when running multiple VMs. Finally, the Network I/O Control (NetIOC) feature allows VoIP traffic to be isolated by partitioning physical network bandwidth. This helps to achieve the intended voice quality when VoIP traffic competes for shared network resources. This paper illustrates that: • Excellent out-of-the-box VoIP performance is achieved with a large number of users served by a commercial VoIP media server hosted on vSphere 5. • vSphere 5 is able to maintain great VoIP performance when running a large number of instances of VoIP server; results showed that vSphere 5 provided good performance even when running 12 instances configured with a total of 48 vCPUs on a system with 8 cores, utilizing more than 90% of the physical CPUs. • With Network I/O Control (NetIOC), vSphere 5 is able to preserve voice quality under high contention for network resources.
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/voip-perf-vsphere5.pdf
Monday, January 9. 2012
VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best Practices
• vCloud Custom Guest Data • Expanded vCloud API and SDK • vCloud API Query Service • vCloud Messages • Cisco Nexus 1000v Integration • vSphere 5.0 Support • Microsoft SQL Server Support • Globalization • vShield Five Tuple Firewall Rules • Static Routing • IPSec Site-to-Site VPN This white paper addresses three areas regarding vCloud Director performance: • vCloud Director sizing guidelines and software requirements • Best practices in performance and tuning • Performance characterization for key vCloud Director operations
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-perf.pdf
Sunday, January 8. 2012
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Performance and Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/srm5-perf.pdf