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Archive for January, 2009
As I mentioned part 1 and 2, I wanted to be complete and post a reference to part 3 as well:
Roland van der Kruk at BrianMadden’s site posted part 3 of his trilogy concerning VMware View 3. In this part Roland has some concerns about display protocol and remote secure access.
I enjoyed reading the 3 VMware View articles of Roland. As a matter of fact, I started a VMware View pilot myself and I can relate to both positive and negative findings of Roland. I will write some blogposts of my own findings in the upcoming weeks.
VMware vCenter & SQL server best practices [updated 15/4/09]
VMware vCenter & SQL : Best Practice
This month I started on a new project and I noticed again a different approach from a colleague to the vCenter/SQL/Physical/Virtual issue. And of course there has been written a lot about this issue but I couldn’t find my exact view anywhere else so I thought I’d open up a discussion here by presenting the Best Practice in my humble opinion.
There are 4 critical decisions you have to make concerning the vCenter server for your VI:
1. vCenter server : physical or virtual.
2. SQL Database (server) : locally or detached.
3. Redundancy options : make it redundant and if so; how?
4. License server : locally or detached.
Today I found out that one of the most interesting player in the Application Virtualization space, InstallFree, released a new version (1.8.0.3) of the InstallFree Bridge Suite.
Some big changes are : Read the rest of this entry »
Today I had a conversation with Gabrie from gabesvirtualworld.com about licensing Thinapped applications. He has a couple of tools that he Thinapped and he would like to share these tools (VI-client for example). Unfortunately he can’t do that because of the licensing Thinapp uses. The license of Thinapp is actually build into the executable Thinapp creates at buildtime of an application. Every endpoint needs a Thinapp license to run Thinapped applications.
Roland van der Kruk at BrianMadden’s site posted part 2 of his trilogy concerning VMware View 3. In this part Roland discusses Linked Clones, a.k.a. View Composer. Read the rest of this entry »
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