July, 2007

Cisco buy a seat on the board…

There was an announcement the other day that CISCO have bought a stake in VMware (along with Intel Capital). If this kind of industry news that interests you – then

The MKS Contest

Over there in the Netherlands they have some quite clever people An unoffical contest has sprung up to create with the VirtualCenter SDK a “MKS Client”. For those not in the know, MKS stands for a...

VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.2 Released

Yesterday VMware released an update to VirtualCenter 2. This is a maintenance release which will not include many if any new features. Update: At the time of first writing this post it appeared as if the “Release Notes” was unavailable. This has now been fixed. Download:

Eric Sloof’s “Virtual Machine MKS Client”

This week I seem to be assailed by developers who have created some cool new tool for VMware written with the VirtualCenter SDK. One interesting one is Eric Sloof’s “Virtual Machine MKS Client”. This tool prompts you for you VC username and password – and lists in the menu the VMs you have...

Brian sticks the knife in…

Brian Madden has written a very unforgiving slant on VMware View. It’s quite a short little missive, and it won’t take you long to read.

Virtually Famous Blooper

Well, in the end I didn’t get approval for my “VMware is esxy” blooper. It probably doesn’t add much to the competition. Is it me – but there doesn’t seem to be that many submissions – I mean a handful of videos are on the virtually famous website. Come on guys, lets make this a real...

Virtually Famous

Well, as nod to VMware’s Virtually Famous campaign my girlfriend and I knocked this video together last night. It’s certainly not as fancy as some of the videos in the competition – but it was a bit of a laugh! It’s called “VMware is esxy”. There’s the main video and also a...

Veeam release Configurator

The other day Maxim Ivanov of Veeam sent me a complementary copy of new application – Veeam Configurator. The tools consolidates a number of features into a wizard like interface. Typical tasks include:

• Enable/Disable root access
• Check, Modify, and Apply NTP...

VMware Release Exchange 2003 Performance Whitepaper

“The paper presents the results of a joint study with Dell that examined the performance implications of a virtualized Exchange environment. Specifically, we looked at: The performance implications of running Exchange Server 2003 on a virtual machine versus a physical system. The...