Reduce MS licensing costs by 95% !!! in a virtualized environment.
This sounds impossible but when I read Gabe’s article correctly he brings back Microsoft OS licensing costs of about $800.000 (for 200 physical hosts) back to just $40.000 (for 200 virtual hosts). Of course this presents an ideal situation.
The situation Gabe describes:
- 200 physical hosts -> 200 virtual guests on 7 physical hosts
- virtualization solution can be any: MS, Citrix, VMware or other
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VMware vSphere 4 partner training
With your VMware Partner account, login to Partner Central and select the
“Partner University” tab for all your vSphere training.
If you are already VSP and VTSP for VI3, you can simply follow the upgrade path.
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VMware View 3.1 released : improved login times
The long awaited update (3.1) for VMware View is finally released. The most important thing in my eyes are the so called Performance Improvements. According to the release notes the login times are significantly improved and server utilization is reduced. I’ve seen View implementations with 3.0 which had serious problems at logon time so I hope that this solves the issue.
Besides that View Manager 3.1 includes the following enhancements:
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1 week of G/A of vSphere 4.0 : getting started
vSphere is out on the market for about a week now and the blogosphere was already actively releasing all kinds of information about VMware’s next-gen “Cloud Operating System”.
I‘ve been reading quite a lot and made a list for myself with articles that I found most interesting concerning VMware vSphere 4.0 and I would like to share it with you.
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Ultimate Deployment Appliance 2.0 beta – vSphere/ESX 4.0 support
Mike Laverick just posted the new 2.0 beta of the well know UDA (Ultimate Deployment Appliance). For those who don’t know this appliance yet it’s an appliance with a web-based interface that you can use to deploy your different operating systems to hosts. This can very well be used to deploy VMware ESX.
The new 2.0 beta is interesting because there should be some ESX/vSphere 4.0 support in there. I haven’t had the time to test it yet but sounds like great work Mike!
Check out Mike’s post and the download URL here : http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1266.
