I'll try to collect in this article some best, and coolest videos of products presented during VMworld 2012 in San Francisco. One of the first innovative products which took my attention was VMware Mirage. An upcoming product which will be able to manage user's profile (with data) from central location. Very storage efficient by using deduplication to store files, the solution can be helpful while migrating users from XP to 7 for example. Cut's down about 95 % off the traffic on the WAN that would normally occur.
Or in case of failure of hardware (laptop's hard drive, or the full laptop problem), the data stored on remote server, can get injected into the user's new PC or laptop.
Also there is a possibility to slipstream new application to existing image. The IT admin can basically decide to replace the existing image while users are working, and after a reboot they'll find new application present.
You can also restore laptop managed by Mirage to a VM and after you can access that VM (managed by VMware View) from a tablet, MAC, Linux or any other device which has VMware View client installed.
Coolest VMworld Videos
Eric Sloof does an excellent job as a Journalist..-:)
Horizon Mobile Demo 2012
And another video presenting the Horizon Mobile. … Presented by Arturo FAGUNDO (love his voice… -:). The Horizon Mobile runs on the ARM processors powered by Android and……iOS…in the second part of the video you can see an iPhone in action too…
He basically explains on how the Horizon Mobile works for the end user and also how the VMware admin can manage the applications present in the user's device by using the Horizon Mobile Manager. Note the copy paste operations from the corporate workspace are not permitted.
VMware Zimbra 8
Zimbra gets better with every release. Interview with Anup PATWARDHAN. The new features described in this video, zimbra client can manage your voicemail. Doesn't matter which voice mail system you have (Cisco, Mytel…), Zimbra uses straight API to handle those…
Powerful search capabilities are showed too, where the search creates a new tab while leaving the Mail, calendar in place. You can still come back to those to work on it while having the new search tab (can be closed). Taging e-mail, drag-and-drop.. You'll see it in action.
During Migration you can have 2 e-mail servers in place and migrate the users by smaller groups.
You can Win VMware Workstation 9 or VMware Fusion 5…. watch the next video..!!
See the posssibilities of newly released VMware Workstation 9 and VMware Fusion 5 in this video. You can win a copy of this software, by liking all 3 Facebook pages. A random drawing will show the winners.
Enhanced vMotion from Local Storage
As you already read my detailed article on New VMware Enhanced vMotion Technology and how usefull it's for small business, you can see the demo video of VMware enhanced vMotion here.
Books Signing – Eric in the book shop does interview with 5 authors of Books, which are well known books about VMware's products and technologies.
Women in the IT – At VMware, there are many Female workers. Here is a video showing on how they're doing…
vSphere 5.1:
- VMware vSphere 5.1 – Virtual Hardware Version 9
- vSphere Data Protection – a new backup product included with vSphere 5.1
- vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 5.1 new features and enhancements
- vCloud Director 5.1 released – what's new
- vSphere Web Client – New in VMware vSphere 5.1
- VMware Enhanced vMotion – New in vSphere 5.1
- vSphere 5.1 Networking – New features
- VMware SRM 5.1 and vSphere Replication – New release – 64bit process, Application Quiescence
- Top VMware vSphere 5.1 Features
- vSphere 5.1 licensing – vRAM is gone – rather good news, any more?
- Coolest VMworld Videos – This post
- Licensing VMware – Further Reading
- ESXi 5.1 Free with no vRAM limit but physical RAM limit of 32Gb