Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

The latest follow up to the well received VI3 PatchDownloader tool is now a command line executable meaning that it can be scripted and scheduled as a routine task. Additional functionality means that it is now easier than ever to keep up to date with VMware® ESX patches.

Scott Herold, Ron Oglesby, and Mike Laverick have finally gotten to a point where they are extremely close to having all first draft writing of the new VI3: Advanced Technical Design Guide completed.  They are anticipating that this will be completed and off to editors towards the end of the first week of July.

http://www.vi3book.com/

The project to disconnect all the CD’s from all the VM’s with one click of a button is finished so I thought it’s time for a new project. Let’s build a VDI connection broker with an embedded console for the XP VM’s. The first thing I needed to do is figure out how I could embed a console view into my VB application. After some searching in the VMware forums I ended up with one or two posts that weren’t much of a help. I decided to take a closer look at the console that is used in web access.  When you logon to web access and select a VM, you can get a console in your Internet Explorer. Let’s find out what happens in the background. Log on to Web Access : https://vcserver/ui