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!

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 »