VMworld Europe 2010 Day 1 (Partner Day)
As stated earlier VirtualFuture.info is present again with both Sven Huisman as myself Matthijs Haverink.
If unofficially began yesterday with picking up the badges, grabbing something to eat, meeting up with Mike Laverick, Scott Herald, Scott Bennet and some other established names in the VMware Community. Later on a real spontaneous unofficial Dutch VMUG “borrel” by Viktorious (head of the Dutch VMUG): … Continue Reading
Xenserver: fast-clone a VM 120 times in 90 seconds
I’ve been working on Project VRC lately and in this role I’ve had the opportunity to work with different hypervisors. In my quest to conquer Xenserver I ran into a couple of challenges and I would like to share these with my readers (as I learned it the hard way, why not make it easier for you).
One of the things I needed to figure out was how to clone a VM multiple times. With Xenserver, there are a couple of options to clone a VM. From XenCenter you can right-click a VM and choose: Copy VM…
VMworld Europe 2010: (the) VirtualFuture is there!
VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen is coming up and VirtualFuture.Info wil be present with both bloggers; Sven Huisman and myself (Matthijs Haverink). For me, going to VMworld was a must because of the following:
A) Networking (meeting new people, keeping in touch with other virtualization enthousiasts)
B) Discovering new products. My company is constantly looking for new solutions and vendors in virtualization space and where better to find and talk to all of them at the same place: the Solutions Exchange of VMworld !
C) Updating my technical and sales skills around (desktop) virtualization products.
But besides that the event is stuffed with great Labs, Breakout Sessions, Super Sessions, A VMware Partner Track and much much more! … Continue Reading
Project VRC: phase 3 – a must read!
Finally we’ve completed phase 3 of Project VRC. For the past months we’ve worked very hard and performed a lot of tests to compare VDI workloads and the results are very interesting, to say the least. If you’re interested in VDI, Windows 7 (on vSphere) and IOPS you really should read this whitepaper!
This whitepaper is focused on VDI; Windows XP and Windows 7 are extensively compared running on vSphere. For example; the I/O behavior of Windows XP and Windows 7 is investigated in detail. By evaluating the different phases of a desktop workload, completely new insights and best practices are given.
It’s great to see what kind of impact tweaking Windows and vSphere has on IOPS and number of users you can get on a VDI-host (which will lower the cost per desktop).
Also read the blogpost about the release of this VRC whitepaper.
Application virtualization comparison… and more!
It is finally published, the latest update of the application virtualization smackdown, written by Ruben Spruijt (with the help of some colleagues and Jurjen van Leeuwen). This whitepaper is a must read if you want to know everything about appliction virtualization and the solutions currently available. In the past I’ve written an Application virtualization comparison chart with Matthijs, but this whitepaper is a lot more than just a comparison chart.
Are you looking for an independent overview of the Application Streaming and Virtualization solutions and curious about the different features and functions each Application Virtualization vendor is offering!? This is the blog and whitepaper you definitely must read!
In the current market there is an increasing demand for unbiased information about Application Virtualization solutions. This white paper is focused on solutions that are anticipated to have an important role in Application Virtualization deployments. An overview of available features of each solution is created to better understand each solution’s capabilities.
Go and read Rubens blogpost on Brianmadden.com and download the whitepaper.
