You won’t want to miss the VMworld Party at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. You’ll enjoy live entertainment and racing activities where you can speed around the track at 140 mph, race a go-cart, jump on a Big Wheel, or test your pit crew skills. Or, just unwind, enjoy the live entertainment and refreshments, and experience the unique venue.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Monday, June 16. 2008
Where’s the VMworld 2008 Party?
Version 1.0 of the SVMotion has been released
Version 1.0 of the SVMotion has been released at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/. New features include:
- No longer counts RDM files against datastore size, fixing the bug that plagued the last version.
- SVMotion operations against templates are not supported since VMware does not support them.
- Added tool tips that explain why a relocation cannot take place
- All SVMotion events write out a log, enabling better understanding of what went wrong in case of an error.
- Aside from the library that loads the plug-in, all of VMware's internal code has been replaced with the VI Toolkit for .NET.
- The project is now supported by almost 20 unit tests, helping to ensure fewer bugs and greater stability.
- The unit tests can be expanded to include testing for a system-resource supported number of servers since they use mock testing designed to work with the VI Toolkit for .NET.
- The project is now built using NAnt, which allows nightly builds of the source, creates distributions, and builds the MSI installer.
Sunday, June 15. 2008
VMotion Info in Excel 2007
Arne Fokkema over at ICT-Freak has written a nice little “how to?. His post shows all the steps to take so you can get all the historic VMotion info and present it in an Excel sheet. The data is extracted directly from the Virtual Center database and can be updated any time.
Mike Laverick released the PowerShell Mini-Whitepaper
Mike Laverick released another RTFM white paper. This one helps you to get up and running with VMware’s new PowerShell Toolkit – without having to learn any Powershell code!
I was initially put of using the various SDKs, Perl Toolkits and PowerShell Tookits – although I’m pretty good with the CLI of an ESX host and write useful “shell? (.sh) scripts – I wouldn’t say I was a VBS guru or C# guru. Then I discovered PowerGUI. PowerGUI puts a graphical shell around Microsoft PowerShell. It’s a bit like the old style “macro? recorders you used to get in spreadsheet or a word processor. You click about making changes – and this creates the code you need. Sure if you want to really fancy things like loops and error control you then need higher level knowledge – but this really great for poor little admins like me who’s eyes glaze over once some talks about object, properties, attributes and methods.
Friday, June 13. 2008
vReplicator 2.5 is here
vReplicator 2.5 provides some excellent upgraded features to allow customers to leverage software-based replication and virtualization to drive their High Availability and Disaster Recovery strategies. vReplicator 2.5 offers several new major features that support these objectives, including the following:
• VSS (Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service) Support to enable quiescing of supported databases to ensure transactionally consistent image backups
• Two Types of Replication: Differential, which allows customers to backup all the changed data since the last full back up, and Hybrid, to allow customers to schedule shorter replication intervals by backing up only the data that has changed from the last interval backup
• Replication of VMs to Multiple Destinations, which allows a company to accomplish multiple objectives for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Ability to Export Reports in Adobe® PDF, XML or Microsoft® Excel formats allowing data to be imported into third-party reporting tools
• Skipping VMDKs, which allows skipping of non-essential disks for faster replication passes
The result of this latest round of upgrades is that vReplicator 2.5 is now faster than ever – up to 10x speed improvements in the typical environment. The new features of vReplicator 2.5 will be outlined in detail during Vizioncore’s vReplicator Overview Webinar on July 3, 2008.
Russ Naples new SVP of product development
RUSS NAPLES, CITRIX VETERAN, JOINS VIZIONCORE AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Vizioncore is pleased to announce that Russ Naples is the new senior vice president of product development reporting into Vizioncore President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Akerberg effective immediately.
Prior to joining Vizioncore, Naples spent 13 years in increasingly important product development roles at Citrix Systems, beginning as a director in testing and rising to vice president of product development for the company. Before Citrix, Naples served as project lead in General Electric’s Systems Integration, Test and Quality Department and has experience teaching management science courses at the university level.
Naples holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Chapman University in addition to a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has served on several university advisory boards related to engineering and computer science.