Author: virtualized1970

  • Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is not too cheap

    I was reading Manlio Vecchiet article “Microsoft’s new VDI licensing: VDI Suites” can be found here. I believe its quite misleading, but hey fair enough being a part of the Microsoft Marketing Team. I had left a comment on the article, but as it seems it had never made it on there. I thought I…

  • VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Demo

    Many people know VMware by products as VMware Workstation or VMware Server but not many know the full power of the enterprise products of the company. For these who are missing on the VMware Enterprise products amazing functionalities I will leave the following video for them (Unfortunately its only available in English) …..

  • VMware wants to re-motivate its troops

    VMware has announced several major improvements to its partnership program VMware VIP, which relates to nearly 10,000 partners around the world. The improvements include the Advantage+ Incentive Program, which offers higher margins to partners and reward their efforts with those concluded pro-actively sales of products and solutions VMware, sold to new customers or those who…

  • VMware Site Recovery Manager, Automated Virtualized DR

    By June, Site Recovery Manager will be available. This product made by VMware is intended to simplify the planning and testing of the disaster recovery project. According to VMware, The planning of recovery after a disaster traditionally exposes companies to significant risk of prolonged failure because too cumbersome to implement, cumbersome and difficult to maintain…

  • Tivoli TSM guide to securing VMware

    IBM provides an excellent Field Guide to safeguard VMware disk files with Tivoli TSM under VMware GSX (Linux) and VMware ESX for free download. In addition to discussing general security issues it also address special tuning tips and useful information on the configuration. Absolutely marvelous! This Field Guide, can be downloaded from here Update: A…

  • VMX Builder for VMware Player

    Are you wondering how to create VMware Configuration Files for VMware Player, Then read below: Sanbarrow.com has a simple configurator for VMware configuration files. With Sanbarrow batch script it is very fast and easy to create a new configuration file for use in VMware player. You can find more details here: Sanbarrow.com VMX Builder

  • Tripwire Config check for ESX

    Tripwire config check for ESX is a nice Free tool to come! Tripwire Config check review the configurations of your Physical & VMware systems based on your specific needs! Tripwire ConfigCheck is designed to sift through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware’s ESX Server and identify those that are not set according to VMware’s…

  • PDF for VMware’s Connection Broker has just been published

    VMware has just published a big PDF with a very good step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the new Virtual Desktop Broker Connection Manager (VDM) 2.1. You can download the PDF here.

  • VMware VMmark 1.1 published

    These days, a new version of the popular VMware VMmark is being released. VMmark is a benchmark software of VMware used to see how much phy. Machines can afford! Many manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems, HP and so on, publish these benchmarks. In the new version 1.1 64-bit machines will be put to the tests.…

  • Introduction To VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 New Modules Distribution

    As VMware has changed the way they distribute their Modules across their VMware VI3 versions, many IT Professionals are still wondering how the new distribution work. For that I have decided to post it on here. I hope it will be helpful for everyone. Please post any questions you have about this new distribution. For…

  • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Release Candidate! …

    Microsoft has spent an important steps in virtualization since it has announced the Release Candidate version of its a long waited Hyper-V. Already present in Windows 2008 Server Beta, this update (RC 0) Install on 2008 can see, a little more prepared for the final version that is evolving over time. Thus, Microsoft intends to…

  • How-To Install Windows XP on VMware ESX:

    Again and again the question about how to install Windows XP on VMware ESX platform pop up? The fact that VMware uses a separate SCSI controller for the virtual machines and that causes windows error message similar to the following to appear on the screen while windows copying its files during the installation: ==================================================== Installation…

  • Solaris 10 (x86) under VmWare

    I have this question often when talking about VMware. IS Solaris 10 available under VMware. Yes Solaris 10 (X86) is feasible under VMware, though it is not too spread yet. (Solaris 10 X86 Running on VMware) If you desire to Install Solaris 10 (X86) on VMware all you need is: * VMware (Any Edition) *…