Eric Sloof

VMware's Board of Directors announced today that it has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO. VMware's Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as President and CEO of VMware effective immediately. Maritz was also named to VMware's Board of Directors.

The VMware Site Recovery Manager API provides an interface for Site Recovery Manager in the same way that the VMware Infrastructure API provides interfaces for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Management framework. The SRM API provides a way for third party systems to initiate tests or failovers and collect the results. The APIs do not help with setup or failback. The SRM API provides the following ways for a client application to use Web services:

􀂄 Log in to the SRM server
􀂄 Obtain the API version
􀂄 Get a list of recovery plans at the SRM site
􀂄 Get the settings of a specific recovery plan at the SRM site
􀂄 Start a specific recovery plan in recovery or test mode
􀂄 Pause a running recovery plan
􀂄 Answer a prompt
􀂄 Restart a paused recovery plan
􀂄 Cancel a recovery plan
􀂄 Get the final status of a recovery plan
􀂄 Log out of the SRM server

The SRM API complies with the following standards organizations:

􀂄 Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS�?I) Basic Profile 1.0
􀂄 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1
􀂄 Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1
􀂄 XML Schema 1.0

VMware updated the Import from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace page. A virtual appliance is a pre-built, preconfigured, ready-to-run enterprise application packaged along with an operating system inside a virtual machine.

Carter Shanklin published a document containing a download link to the VI Toolkit (for Windows) (Very) Unofficial Extensions. Among these extension are Cmdlet’s for SVMotion-VM,  Get-DatastoreFiles and Register-VM.

Cmdlet SVMotion-VM
Cmdlet Get-DatastoreFiles
Cmdlet Register-VM

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Juan Casares, a VMware Interaction Designer in Palo Alto has dropped a little post in the Create a GuestOS type of ESX3.5 for deploying test ESX3.5 Servers VMware community discussion.

We are considering making ESX a guest OS type and make running ESX easier in Workstation. Unfortunately, there are many questions regarding how officially we can support this. There are implications on mobility, hardware restrictions, execution mode, performance, QA, etc.

Not everyone is happy with this consideration.  Ulli over at sanbarrow.com gives his 2 cents.

Juan - please do not officially support this kind of usage. I prefer if folks like jmattson just tell us what to do and in this respect ESX -support has been pretty good in the last few weeks. Please go on like that and don't scratch your heads about official support - good tips and quick answers help us much better. Just my 2 cents. Ulli

Brian Madden Keynote at IT Oost Nederland in the Grolsch Veste in Enschede on 24 june 2008.

This document provides the information that you need to deploy Open Systems SnapVault® 2.6 in a VMware® virtual infrastructure. Many of the best practices that have been identified for previous versions of Open Systems SnapVault apply to this version as well. However, backup features that are new to this version require an additional level of best practices and design strategies.