VMware is expanding its VMware View client for Windows to also deliver virtual desktops over to Mac and Linux.VMware View is a virtual desktop solution for enterprises that is designed to simplify desktop administration and management using a end-user computing architecture. The goal is then to have a central system that gives IT more control […]
Had an issue today where a client with an MD3200i san and VMware esx reported a problem with space when copying contents of physical cds to a virtual machine for installation. The strange issue was that they reported a disk space message when there was in fact plenty of space on the virtual disk. After […]
A client asked me some questions about HyperV networking and virtual machines – and I found after giving them the answers that I really don’t much like some of the problems that the various release of HyperV have thrust on unsuspecting users. In a recent event a client removed a large amount of hyperV networking […]
A client for whom I’m working on some virtualisation and backup issues had a rather large (1.6TB) vmware convertor image of one server 2008 r2 that needed checked for viability. I removed the image from site and was about to convert it up to the ESX server to check that it would start okay. I decided […]
The latest incarnation of VMware’s virtualisation tool for PC operating systems – VMware workstation got a an update which chages quite a few of the features and tools now expectected from this kind of virtualisation utility. Previously I used this product daily until I moved fully into the ESX(i) environment but have been very infrequently […]
After what seems like an eternity Vsphere 5 is with us Vmware recently announced the general availabilty and said …… VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features – Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage and Storage DRS – that extend the platform’s unique datacenter resource management capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an automated […]
Trilead have announced the release of VM Explorer 3.6.009 – great to see another update supporting new esxi builds About VM Explorer 3.6.009: The main new features ofVM Explorer 3.6.009 are: New: support for ESX & ESXi 4.1.0.433742 New: notification message for VM Explorer updates Fixed create folder on iSCSI drive Fixed “Error 1053: The service did […]
Have been digging around a bit deeper to see what the changes are in the new VMware Vsphere 5 release. I suspect there will be a few more articles around this but initially … my comments in brackets Vmware say vSphere 5.0 continues to build on the rich set of capabilities provided in vSphere 4.1. […]
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