This white paper provides an overview of the challenges that organizations face in virtualizing business critical applications given their current tools and processes. Specifically, it focuses on the high availability requirements of these applications and the difficulty and compromises organizations have to make due to lack of an effective solution. The paper introduces a new joint solution from Symantec and VMware called ApplicationHA that addresses the challenges without forcing organizations to make difficult trade-offs between fully protecting business-critical applications, exploiting virtualization capabilities, and minimizing operational cost and complexity.
So I just got back from the VMworld in Copenhagen and it’s time to start unpacking the gadgets. The first gadget comes from the nice people over at nComputing who gave me an L300 for free. In return I had to write a blog article. Gadget number two is also demoed, as I’m wearing a cool official orange VMware 2010 LAB STAFF shirt :-)
With the L300, watching DVD-quality video on up to a 1920x1080 display comes standard for most common media formats. The game-changing access device comes packaged in a sleek low-power package that can be easily mounted on a monitor or secured to a desk. Powered by a new NComputing Numo System on a Chip (SoC), the L300 uses patent-pending hardware technology to decode and scale multimedia locally, eliminating network strain. The L300 access device costs less any other thin- or zero-client options and a quarter of the cost of desktop PCs. In combination with the NComputing vSpace software, it enables VDI solutions at one-third the price of traditional offerings.
Planning and Designing an HA Cluster that Maximizes VM Uptime - The kick-off
A High Availability setup is only as good as its weakest link. In this session, learn more details about the inner workings of VMware HA and best practices for setting up and managing a robust production environment.
In larger organisations administrating a vSphere environment can cause headaches. Some of the burning questions you surely recognize: Who gave that VM 4 CPU's ? Who connected the NIC to the DMZ PortGroup and when ? In this session, Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf will show you how to automate the answers to these questions with the help of PowerCLI.
Last Tuesday was awesome. All the vExperts were invited to meet and greet with VMware’s Steve Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D. I’ve recorded a video which will show VMware’s community manager John Troyer and Steve Herrod giving a speech. Finally I had the chance to shake hands with Steve and talk about Lego, what else is there to talk about when you’re chatting with such a cool guy. There were also a lot of other awesome people. I bumped into members of the Office of the CTO and Principal Engineers.
In this video you will see David Messina at the VMworld Europe labs control room. VMware used Xangati to help design and manage VMworld’s VDI vCloud supporting the main stage presentations and all hands-on labs for over 6000 attendees at the VMworld in Copenhagen. With over 75000 man-hours invested developing 30 hands-on lab topics - the VDI vCloud running VMware View 4.5 software had to support 480 concurrent users running any lab, at any time and in any order.
On Wednesday night get ready to Get Up and Party Down ‘through the decades’ as we take you on a journey through time. A party to relive memories of yesteryear and a place to make new ones. A chance to rediscover the arcade games you played as a child, to battling it out against your colleagues with the games of tomorrow. You will be blown away by the many eras of entertainment that will keep you on your feet all night; from the riffs of the Beatles, to the beats of Kylie, we have all the years covered by our fantastic house band MADHEN. The roaming entertainment, popping up all around the party, will have your jaw on the floor, and then our headline act will have you partying on the dance floor until the houselights come on, the fantastic BJÖRN AGAIN!
BJÖRN AGAIN was created and founded in 1988 in Melbourne, AUSTRALIA by Director and Musician ROD STEPHEN. His show, not labelled a copy or tribute band, but seen as a satirical parody of ABBA and a brand in it’s own right, rapidly achieved worldwide cult status. Rod's production company bjornagain.com, based in Nth London, employs professional session singers and musicians and has grossed £40 Million GBP from 4,000 performances in 50 countries in 22 years in the Northern Hemisphere.
This white paper provides an overview of the challenges that organizations face in virtualizing business critical applications given their current tools and processes. Specifically, it focuses on the high availability requirements of these applications and the difficulty and compromises organizations have to make due to lack of an effective solution. The paper introduces a new joint solution from Symantec and VMware called ApplicationHA that addresses the challenges without forcing organizations to make difficult trade-offs between fully protecting business-critical applications, exploiting virtualization capabilities, and minimizing operational cost and complexity.
