VMware Technical Journal – a very good technical info to read.
I must admit that I'm a bit late on this, but it's never late for good and quality technical information. The VMware Technical Journal is a Free PDF publication which will normally be released on regular basis. This publication is composed from several whitepapers written by VMware Engineers.
One of them is Olivier Cremel (Fr). Readers of ESX Virtualization should know this guy, since I published an article concerning Olivier Cremel and ESXi some time ago… -:)
Each of those chapters is very technical read and you might not be attracted by every single chapter there, since you might be specialized in some of this technology, but not all of them.
Good chapter concerning the VMware Hands On Labs where you'll be able to read how it started, back in 2004, and the evolution of HOL with also the number of VMs being deployed each year. The number of VM being deployed is growing exponentially.
A quick quote from this chapter:
While this paper focused on the VMworld 2011 HOLs, the HOL Core Team started work in early January 2012 on plans for the VMworld 2012 HOL. The plan is ambitious , and the team is looking to push the boundaries even further by integrating more of VMware’s extensive portfolio into the end-to-end HOL solution. In the end, it is all about providing the best possible HOL experience for VMware’s most enthusiastic and technical users
The VMware Technical Journal is composed of the following papers:
Introduction – Steve Herrod, CTO
VisorFS: A Special-purpose File System for Efficient Handling of System Images – Olivier Cremel
A Software-based Approach to Testing VMware® vSphere® VMkernel Public APIs – Lan Xue, Sreevathsa Sathyanarayana, James Truong, Sriram Sankaran, Ramesh Pallapotu, Thorbjoern Donbaek, Eric Lorimer
Providing Efficient and Seamless Desktop Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments – Lizhu Zhang, Wenlong Shao, Jim Grandy
Comprehensive User Experience Monitoring – Lawrence Spracklen, Banit Agrawal, Rishi Bidarkar, Hari Sivaraman
StatsFeeder: An Extensible Statistics Collection Framework for Virtualized Environments – Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Balaji Parimi, Jon Cook
VMware Distributed Resource Management: Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned – Ajay Gulati, Anne Holler, Minwen Ji, Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Carl Waldspurger, Xiaoyun Zhu
Identity, Access Control, and VMware Horizon – Will Pugh, Kyle Austin
VMworld 2011 Hands-On Labs: Implementation and Workflow – Adam Zimman, Clair Roberts, Mornay Van Der Walt
I can only highly recommend to download this publication and take your time for the reading.
Enjoy.. -:)
Source: VMware Labs.
