ESX 4

Openfiler, Free and Opensource

I am back in the books after being un-prepared for VCP-310 and was needing some iSCSI practice, well i dont have an MSA or HP All-In-One laying around so i improvised. My buddy Raj ( he has a blog on here also) pointed me to a program called Openfiler. I was able to create a VM on VMware Workstation, install Openfiler, and then create an iSCSI target for my ESX Box. Worked like a charm. Since I had never used this product before, I used this Petri Article, “Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server”. Read through it all, its a 2 part post.

Just wanted to share my awesome experience of configuring an iSCSI target out of a laptop and virtualization components!

NS

“vSphere” is Officially Launched

Well it wasn’t release as in go install it, 30 days from now, you should see a download available. But you can check out the official VMware website for more information.

You can also check out the official Simulcast featuring VMware CEO Paul Maritz here.

A must read is the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center if your looking to upgrade asap. Check it out here.

If you would like to get a quick comparison of the different licensed features with each edition check out the VMware vSphere Editions Comparison Chart here.

ThinApp was also featured today and it looks pretty cool. The packaging process and deployment of applications were made to look a breeze. Check it out here. Or download and test it for yourself, go here.

Lots of things to look forward to with the release of vSphere(ESX 4.0)

NS

ESX 4 and ESX 4i

Rumors abound, ESX 4 and 4i are soon to be released. A couple notable items are that VMWare is going to allow more then 4vCPU per VM. Also Administrators will be able to hot upgrade memory using the VI Toolkit 1.5. Hot adding memory can only be done in a Server 2008 VM. With the ability to build PowerShell cmdlets, the new VI Toolkit will allow administrators to automate many tasks.

VMWare will be stopping by EPIC Information Solutions to talk about vSphere(ESX 4) April 21st is apparently the launch date for the new version of ESX. Guess what else is on April 21st? Epic Tech Day! So expect some posts from me revolving around Tech Day and VMWare.

NS