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Do you remember the days when VMware P2V Assistant costs $20.000? And a couple of years ago, the product was suddenly available for free? And what about the introduction of the free ESXi? VMware’s hypervisor available for free all of a sudden? Well, this is exactly what I think will happen to vCenter Server. It’s just a matter of time, but VMworld 2009 is getting close, so why wait, VMware? 
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I was interested about the beta vCenter based on Linux. After i did read the documentation, I downloaded the Virtual Appliance.
The VirtualCenter on Linux appliance uses Red Hat Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS), version 5, as the base operating system. VirtualCenter on Linux is based on VMware VirtualCenter server, version 3.5. VirtualCenter has been modified to operate on a Linux operating system.
Since I was recently involved with some RedHat Enterprise Linux implementations, I would give it a try. Read the rest of this entry »
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat was announced at VMworld Europe 2009 and is now available for customers. vCenter Heartbeat provides protection for vCenter Server 2.5:
- Protect VMware vCenter Server and its database against hardware, OS, application and network downtime.
- Ensure seamless failover and failback of VMware vCenter Server.
- Provide reliable disaster recovery for VMware vCenter Server in local and remote locations.
Listprice for vCenter Heartbeat is $12,093.95 with 1 year gold support.
Check the release notes for more info.
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 VMware introduced a name change and a new product suite. VMware View and VMware vCenter <old product name>. A lot of bloggers already reported this news, so I won’t go into this a lot. Just pick on of the following to read all about it:
What’s more interesting is that VMware View Manager 3 together with VMware View Composer is released. Read the rest of this entry »
