Maybe you were already familiar with it but the VMware Communities host a part that’s called VMware Code Central. It’s what supposed to grow to VI/VS administrators heaven I guess. It’s a collection of VI 3 and vSphere 4 sample codes (PowerCli/Perl SDK)  for regular administrator tasks like Backing up VM’s, Making reports, Resource Pool Calculations and so on.

Nava Davuluri of VMware Product Marketing even launced a special blog for it that should update us in an easy to read format on what’s new on VMware CodeCentral. 
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Last week, VMware released a minor update for VMware ThinApp: 4.0.3. Here are the release notes:

What’s New

The 4.0.3 release adds the ObjectTypes parameter to the Package.ini file. You can use this parameter to specify a list of virtual COM objects that are visible to other applications in the physical environment.

The 4.0.3 release changed the name of the VMware ThinApp User’s Manual to ThinApp User’s Guide.

ThinApp 4.0.3 is also a maintenance bug fix release.

Resolved Issues

ThinApp 4.0.3 addresses issues that affect the following applications:

• Telecordia
• Arthemis
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A while ago I posted an article about my ESX whitebox and the HP P400 RAID controller I use in this whitebox server. At that time, I used ESXi 3.5 and there was no way I could configure or get the status from the RAID controller. Fortunately, someone commented that it was possible when using the regular ESX (no i) version by installing some HP software packages. I’ve been using ESXi 4 for some time now, but it was quiet annoying when of my disks died and I wasn’t informed about it or could not check the status, other than by restarting the server. I have switched to ESX 4 and now I want to be able to check and configure my P400 RAID controller. And I can! This is how I did it: Read the rest of this entry »

You might already know by now that the session catalog for VMWorld 2009 is online. Some interesting sessions caught my attention. Here are some of them:

Long distance VMotion

We will discuss best practices for setting up VMotion domains over long distances using existing hardware technology and VMware vSphere product. Will cover specific configurations that have been tried and known to work well. Will present use cases that solve practical problems. Will also discuss upcoming technologies that can help overcome limitations in the existing solutions and enable a wider range of applications. Read the rest of this entry »

I already wrote an articly last week concerning the 1st week of general availability of vSphere and refered to Roy Mikes’ article about installing ESX on VMware Workstation but now Xtravirt, known by their usefull PDF’s concerning these issues have released their howto “How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM“. Their PDF, wich is behind closed doors (just register, it’s free), also describes how to configure your ESX VM so that you can run nested VM’s.

I say it’s a must have : http://xtravirt.com/node/177.

Off course I directly update our Usefull Links section with it, if you don’t know it check it out !