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Gleb Reys January 21, 2017 Leave a Comment

Desktop Virtualization in 2016

In case you have not seen in, check out the Desktop Virtualization: Year in Review 2016 post on BrianMadden.com, it's a great summary of the major announcements and changes in the industry.

It's exciting to see so many new DaaS offerings, but even more cool is to see pretty much every big player like VMware, Citrix and AWS to lead VDI innovation with a portfolio of products catered to different customers.

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: aws, citrix, VMware

Gleb Reys December 22, 2009 Leave a Comment

VMware Solutions Drastically Lower Operational Costs

PALO ALTO, Calif., December 21, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced independent research convincingly proves that VMware customers are drastically lowering operational expenditures (OpEx) with VMware solutions. VMware vSphere™ and the VMware vCenter™ Product Family lower the day-to-day costs of running IT, enabling IT resources and budgets to be shifted from tactical maintenance to strategic projects that can better create value for the business. “Reducing OpEx with Virtualization and Virtual Systems Management,” a whitepaper prepared by ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) for VMware, quantifies how customers have been able to reduce service failures, improve staff efficiency, speed up service deployment and reduce facility operation costs using VMware solutions.
The whitepaper (available from this page), which includes EMA research and VMware customer case studies, documents how VMware virtualization enables:

  • Reduction of Service Failures – fixing problems up to 24 times faster, eliminating up to 43 hours of downtime a year, improving uptime to as high as 99.999 percent, to reduce the impact, frequency, duration, and cost of service issues, troubleshooting, out-of-hours support, and productivity loss
  • Improved Staff Efficiency – increasing administrator efficiency by an average of 10 percent, and as much as 270 percent, by allowing a single administrator to manage up to 1,800 servers, reducing annual management costs by up to $1,000 per server
  • Faster Service Deployment – allowing new systems to be deployed up to 240 times faster, and new applications up to 96 times faster, saving almost $2,000 in wage costs alone per deployment, while reducing downtime, and improving time-to-market for new products and services
  • Reduced Facility Operation Costs – allowing approximately half of all organizations studied to reduce both floor space/rent costs, and power consumption, the latter by an average of 16 percent, or around $700,000 per year for a 5 megawatt datacenter

Full press release: VMware Lowers Operational Costs

See also:

  • VMware – Company Profile
  • VMware – official website
  • Articles on VMware from this site

Filed Under: Press Releases, VMware Tagged With: vcenter, VMware, vsphere

Gleb Reys February 25, 2009 19 Comments

Use Infrastructure Client to manage VMware Server

I'm not sure if it's part of the official documentation to VMware Server, but seeing as a few people failed to connect to their VMware Server 2.x using Infrastructure Client, I thought I'd explain how exactly this can be done.

Why use Infrastructure Client to manage VMware Server

There are three reasons I can think of:

  1. Web-based administration on VMware Server is awfully slow. I must admit it got better in 2.x betas of the server, but web-based management is still far from anything really comfortable. Infrastructure Client seems visibly faster.
  2. Common management interface – Infrastructure Client provides a common interface to manage all your virtual environments, regardless of the VMware virtualization platform supporting them – can be ESX/ESXi or VMware Server.
  3. Access to a full range of configuration parameters – last time I checked, web interface only covered the most used options of managing your VMware Server and VMs. Infrastructure Client is bound to give you access to all the features available, not just the basic ones.

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Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: VMware, vmware server

Gleb Reys January 26, 2009 Leave a Comment

Annoying VM confirmations in VMware Infrastructure 2.5

I really like managing VMware ESX servers through VMware Infrastructure Client (using 2.5 version at the moment), but there's one little thing which really annoys me: most of VM-specific confirmations are asked with dialogue windows which don't mention the name of the VM they apply to.

For example, if I right-click the VM and decide to reset it, instead of getting something like "You're about to reset the HOSTNAME.DOMAINNAME.COM virtual machine. Are you sure?", I only see this:

Annoying Reset Confirmation

Annoying Reset Confirmation

I wonder if it's really hard to make these dialogs to be VM specific?

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: infrastructure client, VMware

Gleb Reys December 1, 2008 Leave a Comment

25% off VMware Workstation – today only!

VMware Workstation 6.5

VMware Workstation 6.5

If you were thinking of getting yourself a VMware Workstation, here's your chance to do it 25% cheaper!

If you go to the VMware Workstation Product page and click Buy Now, proceeding to the checkout will allow you to type in a promo code. Use this one to get a 25% discount: CyberMondayDeal.

There's not much time left though, this offer expires at 11:59PM PT on Monday, December 1, 2008.

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: VMware, vmware workstation, workstation

Gleb Reys November 20, 2008 2 Comments

Desktop Virtualization News, Nov 20th 2008

It's time for another round of desktop virtualization news – they're mostly based on my news feeds, so if I do miss somethin – please take the time to let me know!

Acquisitions

  • IBM is to acquire Transitive via InformationWeek
    I'm really impressed with the flexibility Transitive gives you: it's a cross-platform virtualization solution, which in my experiments allowed an x86 Solaris-based system to run a SPARC Solaris environment. This is extremely useful when you need to support old third-party solutions but your hardware is irreversibly growing old. I understand IBM already uses Transitive's solutions, so it's quite a logical step for both companies.
  • TechTarget Acquires The Brian Madden Company via VMblog
    TechTarget have quite a portfolio of websites and events around virtualization, and surely the desktop virtualization angle brought by Brian Madden will make a great addition.

VMware News

  • VMware Convertor 4 public beta 1 (you will need your VMTN account to access it though)
    New release of VMware Convertor brings the long-awaited support for VM conversion of Linux systems (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) and Windows Server 2008. The list of supported third-party image formats had been substantially updated to support the latest versions of products. Flexibility in VM configuration would allow for a smooth workflow when doing P2V on larger scale.
  • VMware Referrals program
    If you love VMware products and want to earn something for introducing someone to them, it's going to be much easier to do with the just announced referrals program: VMware @ TellAPal

Virtualization Software news

  • Wyse updates their virtualization software suite
    Quite a few directions have been successfully explored and covered in the most recent update of software suite by Wyse: USB Virtualizer, Multi-display and Rich Sound are the modules added to ensure the delivery of a more integrated solution. In terms of typical desktop user productivity, I would say that RIch Sound (bi-directional audio over RDP) is the most significant improvement – I hear this as one of the main complains from customers when it comes to various desktop virtualization solutions and particularly remote access to virtual desktops sessions.

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: transitive, VMware, vmware convertor, wyse

Gleb Reys September 30, 2008 Leave a Comment

Desktop Virtualization News, Sep 30th 2008

I'm going through a rather busy week, so only one thing from the news today: VMware releases Workstation 6.5!

New features in VMware Workstation 6.5

  • Seamless desktop experience with Unity
  • Support for DirectX 3D graphic
  • Simplify creating Windows and Linux virtual machines with Easy Install
  • VM record and replay for groundbreaking debugging
  • Create ACE encrypted virtual machines

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: VMware, vmware workstation

Gleb Reys September 18, 2008 Leave a Comment

Desktop Virtualization News, Sep 18th 2008

With the ever-increasing number of exciting changes and news in desktop virtualization space, I think this website needs regular summaries, and they will probably look similar to this post today.

Let me know if you like the format and whether you want me to change or add anything.

VMware news

VMworld 2008 is happening in Vegas this week, so naturally most of the news are to do with VMware!

  • Thin Client Compatibility Guide for VDM got updated on Sep 15th, 2008
  • Sun Microsystems will add VMware VDI and VMware VDI to the fully supported desktop virtualization solutions it offers to customers – certainly a decision customers will benefit from
  • VMware Fusion 2.0 is officially released – desktop-based virtualization is gaining momentum, and Fusion is one of the best ways to get your Windows VM running on Mac
  • VMware View is announced – it's a set of products that extend VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions to include both server hosted virtual desktops and client virtual desktops that can run on any laptop or desktop computer.

Other news

  • AppSense Environment Manager 8.0 is announced
  • VirtualComputer announces the NxTop desktop virtualization suite

Filed Under: Virtualization News Tagged With: VMware, vmware fusion, vmware vdm

Gleb Reys September 3, 2008 Leave a Comment

5 Great Articles Comparing VMware ESX to ESXi

Seems like the exact list of differences between VMware ESX and ESXi has been a very popular question lately. If you're interested in all the details, I've got some great links to share:

  • What is VMware ESX server 3i (ESXi)
  • VMware ESX and ESXi comparison – VMware KB article
  • Networking differences between ESX and ESXi – yet another VMware KB document
  • Differences between ESX and ESXi with a follow up Technical differences between ESX and ESXi

Filed Under: VMware Tagged With: esx, esxi, VMware

Gleb Reys July 4, 2008 6 Comments

How To Change Lost Password on Your ESX Server

Doing a few experiments with VMware ESX 3.5 today, I've made a typo (twice!) when setting up a password for one of the systems, and this resulted in me locking myself out of ESX server upon the completion of its install.

Luckily, there's a rather easy way to change the forgotten password to something new, and I thought I'll explain how it can be done.

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Filed Under: Technical Tips, VMware Tagged With: esx, password, recovery, root, VMware

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Books you should read

  • Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (Computer/Tech)
  • vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide: Shortcuts down the path of Virtualization
  • Virtualizing Microsoft Tier 1 Applications with VMware vSphere 4

Recently Written

  • Follow Up on Hardware Virtualization
  • Open VM Tools or VMware Tools?
  • The End of the Road?
  • Desktop Virtualization in 2016
  • What Are Your Thoughts On VirtualBox 5.0?

Basic Unix Commands

Basic Unix Commands
  • ls command
  • mkdir command
  • man command in unix
  • cd command - change directory
  • uname command

Useful links

  • Solaris Blog
  • Unix Tutorial Unix Tutorials and System Administation Tips

Unix/Linux Reference

Unix Reference
  • check CentOS version
  • check Raspbian version
  • SSH port forwarding
  • unix commands
  • visudo tutorial
  • mtime unix
  • lrwxrwxrwx
  • Unix Tutorial digest

Advanced Unix Commands

Advanced Unix Commands
  • ln command - symlinks
  • tune2fs unix command - filesystem parameters
  • du command - disk usage
  • lsb_release command
  • find unix command

Virtualization Glossary

  • VDI
  • Virtual Machine
  • Sun xVM suite

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