Xtravirt : How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM
I already wrote an articly last week concerning the 1st week of general availability of vSphere and refered to Roy Mikes’ article about installing ESX on VMware Workstation but now Xtravirt, known by their usefull PDF’s concerning these issues have released their howto “How to install ESX 4.0 on Workstation 6.5.2 as a VM“. Their PDF, wich is behind closed doors (just register, it’s free), also describes how to configure your ESX VM so that you can run nested VM’s.
I say it’s a must have : http://xtravirt.com/node/177.
Off course I directly update our Usefull Links section with it, if you don’t know it check it out !
Top 5 interesting sessions VMWorld 2008
I was looking over the VMWorld 2008 session catalog (I think you’ll need a VMWorld account), and it’s going to be a promising event with a lot of interesting sessions. Off course, there are a lot of best practices sessions, which are always good to attend, but I also found some other interesting sessions. Here is my top 5:
VI Management Assistant (VIMA):
Never heard of this before, it looks like a virtual appliance for deploying agents and scripts to ESX(i) servers.
Virtual Storage Appliances:
How can environments without shared storage still benefit from the high availability features of VC? VMware introduces a new storage architecture: OpenVSA Platform.
VMware Workstation 6.5 Unleashed:
It sounds like VMware workstation 6.5 will be released just before or at VMWorld 2008!
Offline VDI:
This session will introduce the new feature of the upcoming VDM 3.0, I expect to be released at the end of the year.
An Introduction to VMO:
The VMware Automation and Orchestration Tool : Find out about the automation engine that powers Life Cycle Manager. I think it’s sort of like Citrix Workflow Studio
Unfortunately, no sessions about Continuous Availability, something VMware showed on VMWorld 2007.
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