Time to get this site back into gear!
I have had quite a number of adventures with IT in the last year. In that time, I have taught a number of vSphere 5 courses for VMware Education, Designed a couple of View 4.x and 5 environments for public sector clients. Designed and am now in the process of implementing a vCloud Director/vSphere 5 [...]
VSI vs VDI part 1
Virtual Server Infrastructure vs. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Part 1 I have been working almost exclusively on virtualization projects for most of the past 5 years. Before that I spent a lot of time on Citrix/terminal services projects with the associated profile, application delivery and Windows OS optimizations. During that whole time, there has been a [...]
VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 2 is released
This evening VMware released Update 2 for ESX/ESXi 4, vCenter Management Server 4, vCenter Update Manager 4 and VMware Data Recovery. A quick scan of the ESX 4 Update 2 release notes shows expanded support for FT on Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale, Xeon 34xx Clarkdale and Xeon 56xxx processors. Support for IOMMU on AMD Opteron 61xx [...]
VMware Workstation 7.1 is here!
VMware released VMware Workstation 7.1 Fusion 3.1 today. From VMware’s Workstation 7.1 Release Notes: New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems This release provides support for the following host and guest operating systems: Operating System Ubuntu 8.04.4 Host and guest Ubuntu 10.04 Host and guest OpenSUSE 11.2 Host and guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux [...]
New VMware Advanced Certifications announced
VMware Education has announced their new VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) Certification specialties VCAP4-Datacenter Administrator (VCAP4-DCA) and VCAP4-Datacenter Design (VCAP4-DCD). VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 -Datacenter Administration (VCAP4-DCA) The VCAP-DCA is directed toward System Administrators, Senior Consultants and Technical Support Engineers who work with large and more complex virtualized environments and can demonstrate technical leadership [...]
VMware Partner Exchange 2010
I just booked my flight to Las Vegas for VMware’s Partner Exchange. I will be attending the partner “Post-Sales Accreditation Bootcamp” on the weekend and staying for a couple of VMware View 4 design session on Tuesday. I have a cousin who lives in Las Vegas and Friday is his birthday. If I can locate [...]
San Francisco Renegades 2010
This weekend was my third rehearsal weekend with the San Francisco Renegades. The Renegades are an “all age” Drum and BUGLE corps. Once upon a time, I marched in “Junior Corps” Valley Fever from Modesto and later the Santa Clara Vanguard. I enjoyed myself tremendously, learned from some incredible instructors about marching, music, brass playing, [...]
vSphere Update 1 released
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-Update01 From the release notes: VMware View 4.0 support – This release adds support for VMware View 4.0, a solution built specifically for delivering desktops as a managed service from the protocol to the platform. Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 support –This release adds support for 32-bit and 64-bit versions [...]
VMware View 4 Beta/POC
Today, I had the good fortune to work with Todd Dayton, A VMware specialist on all things VDI/View related. The client I am working for had been accepted into the View 4 beta and Todd was onsite to help with the install and config of View and some thin clients. We relearned a pretty common [...]
Licensing VMware ESX 4, ESXi and vCenter 4 Video KB article
This week VMware posted KB article 1010839 on licensing ESX 4, ESXi 4 and vCenter 4. I get many questions in class about the new license assignment process for vSphere. This KB article has a nice video demonstration and very concise text direction for assigning licenses.
