Just out of curiosity I double clicked the VMware Update Service icon and before I knew it, I was downloading and installing bug fixes into the Firmware of my ESX 3i Server. The VI Client and the tools component (whatever that may be) were also automatically updated. I took around 45 minutes and I had to restart my ESX 3i Server. I made some screenshots during the process. You can even schedule the Update Service.
Tuesday, September 25. 2007
ESX 3i Update Service Client
ESX3i training video
David Davis over at HappyRouter.com created a 16 minute training video that steps you trough the installation of VMware ESX Server 3i Beta in Workstation. Now, you can learn how to virtualize it for testing and demo purposes by running VMware ESX Server 3i Beta on your existing PC OS. Take a look!
Monday, September 24. 2007
So when the server goes down
This great song was the winner of the VMware Virtually Famous video competition. Lodge McCammon, Brian Bouterse and Sammie Carter (employees of the Friday Institute) posted a YouTube video you can see their video clip on a large video screen for 10.000+ attendees at the VMworld. After the session they were presented with a check for $15,000 which was donated to the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
NFS - The Unjust VMware Storage Outcast?
For some reason, it seems that most VMware users shrug NFS off as only being good enough to store ISO files. Many wouldn't dare run production (or in some cases, even development) environments on anything other than FC or iSCSI. Unfortunately, Thomas Bishop feels that many are missing out. You can read the full article at Scale The Mind.
Sunday, September 23. 2007
New VMware Technology Network Live
Besides the fact that the performance is a bit slow (Jive is still working on it) the new VMware Technology Network looks great. If you are familiar with VMware Technology Network (VMTN), you will see all of the functions you have come to know, plus a number of new functions like personal blogs for all community members, collaborative wiki documents, wysiwyg editing of discussions and wiki documents, tagging of all content, improved search, and replying to threads via email. These features are meant to increase the benefits you get from participating in the community. You really should take the quick tour.
VMware VDI - VDM 2.0 Beta now live
WP over at the Virtual Desktop Blog was so slammed at VMworld over the last week that he haven’t had the time to let everyone know the Beta 1 for VDM 2.0 is now available. VDM 2.0 is a sesion broker for VDI deployments offered by VMware and is built from the Propero technology they acquired back in April of this year.