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VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack 2 includes the following new features: Flash URL Redirection - Customers can now use Adobe Media Server and multicast to deliver live video events in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. To deliver multicast live video streams within a VDI environment, the media stream should be sent directly from the media source to the endpoints, bypassing the virtual desktops. The Flash URL Redirection feature supports this capability by intercepting and redirecting the ShockWave Flash... [Lire la suite]

VMware has just released the much anticipated Update 1 patch for vSphere 5.1 which includes several updates and bug fixes for both ESXi and vCenter Server 5.1. I highly encourage everyone to review the release notes for the complete list of resolved issues. While going through the ESXi 5.1 Update 1 release notes myself, I noticed a few resolved bugs that I had been following and thought I would highlight a few of them: Reinstallation of ESXi 5.1 does not remove the Datastore label of the local VMFS of an... [Lire la suite]

I was doing some testing with vCenter Server 5.1.0b this Wednesday and Thursday and just noticed it was released today. Those who were experiencing time-out issues with the web client or were unable to login to the web client using a non-standard UPN as an AD user will want to check this release out. Full release notes can be found here. I did the upgrade using the upgrade repository iso: VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.1.0.5300-947940-updaterepo.iso. Very useful if you do not have direct access to the internet from your vCenter... [Lire la suite]

VMware View 5.1.2 has been released few days ago by VMware. Mostly maintenance release, but new Internationalization packages has been integrated as well. You don’t need to upgrade the View transfer server or Composer Server components – if you are upgrading from View 5.1 or View 5.1.1. The new release of VMware View has new internationalization of the View documentation and also the View Administrator, which brings the admin interface Japanese, French, German, simplified Chinese and Korean. --> Please see the rest on Vladan's... [Lire la suite]

Solarwinds has released version 5.1 of its virtualization management product Virtualization Manager. This version is the follow-up of version 5.0 which was released in April this year. Virtualization Manager is the product which Solarwinds acquired when it acquired a company called Hyper9 in January 2011. Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation.   Version 5.1 provides the following... [Lire la suite]

3 mois, voilà le temps qu'il aura fallu à Microsoft pour peaufiner encore un peu plus sa Release Preview de Windows 8. Par rapport à la Consumer Preview, Mcrosoft annonce des changements structurels esthétiques, et une optimisation globale des performances. La base de pilotes s'est également étoffée,  et vous pouvez désormais télécharger cette mouture, soit en standalone, soit en guise de mise à jour à partir de W8 CP, et même de Sept, Vista et XP, avec toutefois des choses que vous pourrez conserver en scrutant ce tableau.... [Lire la suite]

Microsoft sortirait la version Release Preview de Windows 8 le 1er ou le 6 juin en trois déclinaisons : Core, Pro et WinWMC. Nous avons un peu plus de détails la release candidate (RC) de Windows 8, la dernière version avant la version finale qui devrait sortir en octobre. Appelée release preview (RP) par Microsoft, cette RC porte le nom build 8400 et est actuellement disponible surMicrosoft Connect pour les partenaires du programme EEAP (Ecosystem Engineering Access Program). Voici le nom de fichier exact... [Lire la suite]

One of the most popular scripts on my site with 26,966 downloads of v5 has been the vCheck script, for those of you who haven’t seen this yet here is a quick summary of this script: Summary vCheck is a vCenter checking script, the script is designed to run as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information via an email directly to your inbox in a nice easily readable format. This script picks on the key known issues and potential issues of the virtual infrastructure and reports it all... [Lire la suite]

racle has released version 4.1.6 of its virtualization platform VM VirtualBox. This version is considered a maintenance release which can be installed on top of any version 4.1.x, fixing some display and networking issues. Some of the fixes in version 4.1.6 include: Fixed rare Windows 7 guest hangs, either at boot time or when reconfiguring the network card in unusual setups Fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to a wireless interface on Mac OS X hosts. More WDDM fixes for Vista and Windows 7... [Lire la suite]

VMware has updated its View client for the iPad to version 1.2, introducing support for iOS 5 and Airplay. The View client can be used to connect to connect to a Windows Virtual Desktop running on top of VMware View, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution from VMware.   The product provides the following new features: Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay Embedded RSA soft token simplifies... [Lire la suite]