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VMworld Labs runs from 3 datacenters

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VMworld Labs. The labs this year will be heavily using cloud infrastructure.  The storage environment is mostly 10GbE. Labs are running a few levels deep – ESX nested inside of ESX with VM’s running inside.  See Vinf.net blog and vTardis for more on running virtual ESXi on a cheap system. You can imagine that the […]

Measure some perf benchs with VMark

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Fujitsu Servers performance’s winning benchmarks on 32 and 24 cores systems. What is VMark? VMmark is an industry’s first virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers. VMmark can be used by equipment manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators and other organizations. With VMark you can: Measure virtual machine performance. Compare the the performance of different hardware and virtualization platforms. […]

The future of VMware Workstation

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A VMworld session to attend if you’re present at VMworld this year. If you’re comming to VMworld 2010 this year and you’re using VMware Workstation 7 as your desktop virtualization software you might want to know some more news for the future. So to get a peak about new functionalities in the future releases of […]

VMware partners with Symantec on ApplicationHA

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Enforce VMware HA with Symantec’s ApplicationHA. Symantec is about to release (in September) new product called ApplicationHA. What’s that? It is based on the Veritas Cluster Server technology and provides application availability in coordination with VMware HA. As you know the VMware HA help to restart your VM on another server, but what about the […]

New vCenter 4.1 performance whitepaper

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There has been a new whitepaper released about vCenter 4.1 performance improvements and also Best practices. vCenter is a tool which you’re using everyday since you’re managing you VI with VI client, and since there has been lot’s of improvements made especially on the performance side, it’s always interesting to see why you should upgrade […]

Thinapp 4.6 released

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Thinapp 4.6 has been released. Thinapp 4.6 was released and it brings up quite a few new functionalities. There is a new “ThinDirect” feature which allows redirecting of URLs from native to virtual browsers. Useful when you want to keep IE6 for custom made applications which you have to access via an URL and those […]

Backing up vCenter 4.X Server

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What to backup on your vCenter Server? A KB from VMware has pointed out what should be backed up on your vCenter. There are 2 major things to be considered for backup. Your vCenter database and certificates. Without those 2 elements you can’t login to your vCenter. VUM (update manager) is another element considering to […]

New designing tool for vCenter Update Manager 4.1

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VUM 4.1 Sizing Estimator. With a new tool published on VROOM! blog from VMware Performance Team you’ll be able to get the necessary informations when you’ll be designing you Virtual Infrastructure, and especially the vCenter Update Manager 4.1. In fact, you are able to get the right answer to your question whether to install the […]