VMworld 2008 – Great news on ESX 4.0
Yesterday I went to the very last session of VMworld, it was an hands on lab with ESX 4.0 Beta. The labs guys were very strict on no taking photographs and the disclaimer that everything is still under development and could change as it is being developed. They were saying new, renamed or changed features with every new build they got. … Continue Reading
VMWorld 2008 – ThinApp desktop?
Today I was at the “ThinApp - going deep on capturing applications” session. I expected a real technical session about how to tweak a captured application and maybe some best practices. It was a little bit of a soft presentation until one of the presenters showed something used in R&D at the moment: ThinApps that run in a second (virtual) desktop. … Continue Reading
VMWorld 2008 – Tech preview: vCenter Orchestrator
vCenter Orchestrator is part of the management vServices. This will be available (suprise suprise) next year.
What you can do with this is drag-and-drop development of customized workflows to automate operational task.
Examples of what you can do with this are: … Continue Reading
VMWorld 2008 – Wednesday general session
7:50 – Ready at the blogging table
8:07 – Stephen Herrod starts his keynote.
Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware’s new technologies.
8:22 - until now, haven’t heard any new stuff. Just a recap of the last 2 days from VMWorld.
8:25 – We get a Fault Tolerance demo. … Continue Reading
XenApp 5.0 – First Impression
Last week I’ve been testing with the new version of XenApp (Formerly known as Presentation Server). First thing that different from the Technical Preview was the ease of installation on a Windows Server 2008. All components (except for Sun Java) install automatically. Next thing that’s a big difference is the occurance of the Web Interface, Black, very Black and very good looking.
I’ve created a dual mode streaming site to be able to test the new Isolation 3.0 features. Best improvement is … Continue Reading
