On the bus to the airport with Robert Strong the Veeam Comedy Magician. Robert has been crisscrossing the world since 1985, entertaining audiences large and small, young and old, formal and casual, and everything in between! Recently voted āSan Franciscoās Funniest Prop Comedianā and the āBay Areaās Best Performer,ā Robert has appeared on CBS This Morning, performed for the U.S. Congress, and taken his act to more than 30 different countries.
On the final day at the VMworld Europe in Cannes, Hugo and I were one of the few who are still here. As good fellow VMware vExperts do, we had dinner.Ā I recorded a little Flip video and also would like to congratulate Carter with his winning PowerShell session.
An unattended deployment of VMware infrastructure 3 reduces the time needed for installation and configuration of your VMware ESX and vCenter server(s). It also reduces the risk misconfiguration. Unattended deployment of these products will gain you a consistent configuration. At Xpert Training Group, an indepedent VMware Authorized Training Centre from The Netherlands, unattended deployments of VI-3 are used on a regular basis. In this session you will learn how to automatically deploy your ESX servers and how to connect these fresh installed ESX servers to a vCenter server. After the introduction of a step-by-step plan for unattended deployment, this session will focus on some useful scripting techniques used in a unattended deployment scenario. Expect some bash and powershell scripting in this session.
I asked Peter Ghostine, DVP / CTO Quest Software, Provision Networks Division, what he thinks about the VMware vClient initiative.
As part of the VMware vClient initiative, VMware has announced a strategic partnership with Teradici to include Teradici's PC-Over-IP technology as part of VMware View.
VMware will license the Teradici PC-Over-IP display protocol and will work with Teradici to co-develop and expand PC-Over-IP.
Just after completing his unattended ESX/VC install and configure session, I had a little interview with Viktor van den Berg,Ā he did great.I have written an article about Viktorās session which can be found at the Dutch VMUG website.
I made a little video impression of theĀ second day at the VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes. Itās a ten minute video with a part of the keynote, the labs and some other things.
Dennis Zimmer founded icomasoft agĀ on July 18, 2008 and was appointed Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Board. In this function, Dennis Zimmer assumes responsibility for icomasoftĀ® ās technology strategy, R&D and software architecture. Prior to joining icomasoft ag, he held the position of a Virtualization Specialist and Systems Engineer EMEA Central with the storage vendor Pillar Data System. Earlier stages of his career include the position as Senior Consultant with Mightycare Solutions, a leading consulting company for virtualization in the German market. He designed, implemented and supported some of the largest VMware infrastructures in Europe.
I was invited by Scott Herold to join the Virtualization PowerShell community night. Scott has been working with Carter Shanklin on planningĀ such a night in Cannes during VMworld Europe 2009.Ā It was an open discussion on Virtualization and PowerShell and how we can continue to drive and keep this combination of technologies at the forefront of virtualization management.Ā
Scott also told more about todayās launch of the VESI EcoShell which is community intended to be organized around a new freeware application called the Virtualization EcoShell. The Virtualization EcoShell will enable any level of virtualization administrator to take advantage of PowerShell capabilities provided by Microsoft and virtualization vendors through a customizable, consolidated graphical interface. Virtualization experts will be able to further make use of the flexibility provided by a powerful scripting engine and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to customize administrative tasks specific to their organizationās needs.
Just lifted off :-) 
