Improve VDI
One of the problems with VDI has always been RDP. Especially when connecting over a WAN. Key with VDI is, like Paul Maritz just stated in his keynote, is user experience. VMware just announced an alliance with Teradici to achieve a greater user experience for a true remote PC. Read the rest of this entry »
Rats deserting a sinking ship?
Mendel Rosenblum’s exit this week from VMware marks the end of an era -– both for the company and virtualization software as a whole.
Co-founder and chief scientist at VMware, Mr. Rosenblum brought the company to life with his wife, Diane Greene, who served as chief executive until she was fired in July. True enough, there were three other VMware founders –- two of whom remain at the company -– but Mr. Rosenblum and Ms. Greene were the public face of the virtualization start-up turned virtualization kingpin. They personified the Silicon Valley experience of brainy engineers outflanking the suits. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on September 11th, 2008 | By: Adam | Tags: founding staff quit, VMWare
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VMware Server 1.0.7, Workstation 6.0.5, Player 2.0.5, ACE 2.0.5
VMware just released a minor update for a number of products: Read the rest of this entry »
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) session shadowing
Use the VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to host desktop environments inside virtual machines that are running in their data center, enabling end-users to gain remote access from a PC or thin client terminal. Read the rest of this entry »
Vmware joins Microsoft’s Server Virtualistion Validation Program
There are no permanent enemies in politics, just permanent interests, the truism goes; and this is apparently true in business as well. InternetNews.com has learned that VMware has joined arch-rival Microsoft’s third-party server virtualization validation program (SVVP).
Timebomb!
Everyone knows about it! Vmware’s Upadte 2 was a massive disaster. My favourtie response out of Vmware was “just set your clock back before August 12th!” Nice solution. Read the rest of this entry »
ESX 3.5 Update 2
With the release of Update 2 for ESX, there are some truly awesome functionality released!!
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 | By: Adam | Filed under VMWare
[TUTORIAL] Virtual Center Cluster using MSCS
The constant question with Vmware is, “Can I cluster using Microsoft Clustering Services?”
The answer now, thankfully, is yes you can. And just to stretch it out a bit more there’s this!
[TUTORIAL] Change service console IP in Vmware ESX 3.5
There are a number of different options for changing the IP address of the service console in Vmware ESX 3.5. Following is another example using the CLI and the esxnet command.
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