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John Davis of Virtualizationinformation.com posted the presentation he gave at VMWorld 2008 on his website: Advanced Performance Tuning VI3. His notes are also included. A lot of useful tips are in this presentation, so John, thanks for sharing!

Now that the sessions from VMWorld 2008 are available online (for registered attendees), I thought I could share some of the good stuff with you. Here are some recommendations for implementing XenApp 4.5 on VMware. I’ve posted recommendations before, so there could be some overlap. Of course, not all recommendations may apply to your situation, but I find some of them very useful. These come from session VD2591: Lessons Learned While Deploying Citrix Presentation Server (XenApp) 4.5 in a Virtual Datacenter.   Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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: Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at VMWorld, Vizioncore demonstrated a brand new technology  called “shirt-vmotion”. This technology enables VMware partners to instantly wear a shirt from a Vizioncore sales manager, even when it’s sweaty and smelly. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we met Paul Maritz. We handed him a Virtualfuture.info shirt  with the text:

“Real men use  real hypervisors”.

He seemed to like it, especially the color.

Unfortunately, live-blogging was not possible during the  general session. The wireless connection was very bad, and they forgot to put tables with wired internet access for the bloggers. A little late, but better than never, here are my quick thoughts on thee keynote speech that Paul Maritz gave: Read the rest of this entry »

At VMworld I have attended a session about another new feature called Fault Tolerant. This cool feature will be released somewhere in 2009, with the release of what is suppose to be ESX4.0. It’s an addition of the other high availibity services like VMotion, HA and DRS. As a matter of fact it uses a modified VMotion technique to clone a live machine in memory to another host and disconnect that secondary machine from the network so that it doesn’t accept any connection. Read the rest of this entry »