Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

Fidelity needed a way to rapidly provide desktop computing environments to offshore workers while ensuring the security of sensitive data, and the performance of applications across the WAN. Without Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), they would have never been able to ramp up as fast as they did in India. Now they’re looking to move their whole user population, offshore and local, to VDI over the next few years.� Says Scott Toenniessen from the Windows Architecture and Engineering team over at Fidelity Investments. FI is an international provider of financial services and investment resources, helping individuals and institutions meet their financial objectives. Serving more than 22 million individual and institutional clients, Fidelity manages more than 300 funds and has more than $1.2 trillion of assets under management.

Alexander Gaiswinker created a storage vmotion graphical user interface and posted it in the VMware community. Instructions: Install the VMware remote CLI (www.vmware.com/go/remotecli) on a Windows machine to the standard path (program files...) Save the file vms.pl into the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin directory. Save the svmotionGUI.exe somewhere on the machine.  Double click it!

According to Ron Oglesby, one of the authors if the VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide this long awaited book will be released at the VMworld EUROPE 2008 in Cannes.

We have authors editions now. Full content, no index or TOC and are basically handing some out to "friends and family" as it were. The book is being transferred into final print layout, and if you stop by and see any of us in Cannes this month you will be able to see the hardcopies :-)

NPIV is the acronym for “N_Port ID Virtualization�, a T11 ANSI standard which was developed by Emulex and IBM, to provide the capability for a fabric switch to register several WWPNs on the same physical HBA port. Emulex and Cisco are collaborating with VMware on interoperability and end user education to help both the industry and end users understand the benefits of NPIV technology in a VMware environment. The purpose of this paper is to provide some fundamental insight into NPIV and to help end users discover the practical use cases and deployment scenarios for maximizing the benefits of this new capability.