First of all: Happy new year and I wish you all a fantastic 2010! In this first post of the year on Virtualfuture, I want to bring the latest survey of Eric Siebert’s top 25 “VMware and virtualization bloggers” to your attention. Currently Virtualfuture.info is ranked at number 17, which I’m very proud of. I’m not saying I deserve to be in the new upcoming top 25 of Virtualization bloggers, but if you like what we’re doing, our Application virtualization comparison chart for example or our event reports (VMworld, Synergy) and our regular blogging, please give Virtualfuture.info a vote as well.

We all know that ESX supports LUNs / Disks up to 2TB (minus a few kb) but what happens when a larger locally attached disk is connected to a host?

This is what  I have noticed when I tried to create a large volume on my own ESX white box with more than 2TB locally attached storage: it only allowed me to create a volume with the space above the 2TB. In my situation I got a 48 GB volume on a 2048 GB LUN. Also, this ”2TB” volume, which I created with the vmkfstools commandline utility, was useless because I could not create a single VM on it. Read the rest of this entry »

The moment is here, XenDesktop 4 is available!

Much awaited and true to their promise Citrix has just officially made XenDesktop 4 available for download on the download page of MyCitrix.com : http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=163057 (you need to be registered and login).

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VMware is organizing an online virtualization event on November 10th and 11th:

VMware virtual events are highly interactive events conducted online using only a web browser. They include all of the areas that you may find at a physical event, including an exhibit hall, auditorium, resource center and networking lounge.

This event should especially be interesting for the ones wanting to know more about VMware View 4. There are a couple of sessions on the agenda regarding the upcoming version of VMware View. This is also the reason why I’m going to attend this event, because if I want to win the bloggers-battle, I definitely need to get more information from VMware about VMware View 4. Until now, there isn’t that much official information available.

The VMware Infrastructure Software Development Kit (VI SDK) includes application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow developers and administrators to reduce the time and effort required to run and manage VMware platforms. The author of the book VMware VI and vSphere SDK  is Steve Jin, a senior member of technical staff at VMware, wrote this book to help the reader understand the VMware SDK and how to effectively use the SDK.

According to Steve Jin, this book is an indispensable resource for all: Read the rest of this entry »