Virtualisation

A couple of weeks before VMworld (see virtualization.info live coverage), VMware released a new minor update for its application virtualization platform ThinApp. Despite the version number, ThinApp 4.6 (build 287958) introduces major new components and capabilities: Converter (a P2V migration tool that automates creation of ThinApp packages) ThinReg (allows to execute virtualized services at operating system boot time and expose to non-virtualized applications) ThinDirect (allows to associate specific web pages to... [Lire la suite]

Most people I know who have spent a lot of time with Hyper-V have had the experience of accidentally taking too much memory away from the parent partition.  This happens when they start too many virtual machines – and all of a sudden the performance and responsiveness of the parent partition goes down significantly. The response from people who hit this is usually to stop the last virtual machine that they started, to reduce its memory, and then start it up again. This solution has worked in the past – but is no longer an... [Lire la suite]

Recently released on the PowerCLI site there has been an updated version of the PowerCLI Poster, this time the PowerCLI Documentation and Engineering teams have done a great job of updating it into a readable poster and have even added my quick reference guide to it to make it an awesome document. Included in this poster you will not only find every cmdlet collated into some nice readable sections but also code examples and further PowerCLI and PowerShell resources, download the pdf from below: ... [Lire la suite]

VMworld 2010 a ouvert ses portes à San Francisco, avec le keynote attendu du CEO Paul Maritz, et qui cette fois, a également été accompagné du keynote du CTO Dr Stephen Herrod. Du deux en un, pour l’un des keynotes les plus riches jamais vus à VMworld !!! Parenthèse, Rick Jackson, CMO de VMware, a démarré la session avec un chiffre qui laisse rêveur : l’édition 2010 enregistre pas moins de 17 021 participants. Digne d’un Oracle World…. Les nouveautés de View Mais revenons au présent. La première étape de cette nouvelle vision ?... [Lire la suite]

Help unblock OS deployments by redelivering blocking users' old Windows environments, applications and browsers seamlessly in Windows 7 using automated physical-to-virtual migration P2V Migration for Software Assurance uses the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Sysinternals Disk2VHD to convert a user's existing Windows XP or newer client environment to a virtual hard disk then automates the delivery of an updated and personalized Windows 7 operating system containing a virtual machine with the user's previous Windows environment,... [Lire la suite]

Faute de combattants, la bataille des hyperviseurs bare-metal est reportée à 2011. Mais en attendant, VMware, Citrix et plusieurs start-ups prometteuse travaillent d'arrache-pied pour répondre à la demande des utilisateurs et des constructeurs de PC. Contre toute attente, VMware prétend qu'il n'a pas besoin de tenir sa promesse de fournir un hyperviseur bare-metal pour poste de travail, et que s'il avait à choisir un outil de ce type ce serait celui de Citrix. "Il est temps de remettre les pendules à l'heure», explique... [Lire la suite]

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 | 30 Aug 2010 | Build 292238 Introduction to Converter Standalone 4.3 VMware vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution to automate the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines (running Windows and Linux), other virtual machine formats, and third-party image formats. Through an intuitive wizard-driven interface and a centralized management console, Converter Standalone can quickly and reliably convert multiple local and remote physical machines... [Lire la suite]

Jeff has discussed this at some length over on the virtualization team blog, but as a general rule of thumb we believe that it is much better to have paging occur inside the guest operating system rather than at the virtualization layer (if paging is needed). The simple reason for this is that the guest operating system has far better understanding of which are the best sections of memory to page out – where as all the virtualization layer can do is to guess at what should be paged out. In my recent demonstrations of dynamic... [Lire la suite]

Pour les personnes n’ayant pas la chance d’y aller vous pouvez retrouver le programme : http://www.vmworld.com/docs/DOC-4891 http://www.julienmousqueton.fr/2010/08/31/vmworld-2010-san-franscico/

Today at VMworld North America, VMware announced the availability of VMware View 4.5. The View 4.5 Premier release represents a significant milestone as it places VMware is very select company with Citrix as the only two vendors that offer enterprise-ready server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) solutions. For us to consider View 4.5 enterprise-ready, it had to meet all requirements in the Burton Group Server Hosted Virtual Desktop evaluation criteria. The evaluation criteria was developed over a five month period. During that... [Lire la suite]