Eric Sloof

When you’re living in or near the Netherlands, you have the opportunity to attend the "VMware Cost Efficiency Roadshow 2009" for free. This half day event will be held at the following places and dates. You can register here.

• Den Haag 03-02-2009
• Apeldoorn 05-02-2009
• Eindhoven 10-02-2009
• Luxembourg 12-02-2009
• Mechelen 17-02-2009
• Namur 18-02-2009

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"It is absolutely clear that virtualization is here to stay," says VMware CTO Steve Herrod, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan. "In the future, we'll look back at the non-virtualized compute models as we look back on the phonograph or on bulky CRTs," Herrod continues. "I believe we're far from realizing the full benefits that virtualization can bring to datacenters, desktops, laptops, and mobile phones," adds Herrrod.

Quickly following up on Beta 1, Beta 1.5 introduces three important new features:

• In addition to VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Server 2, VMM now supports the management and monitoring of Citrix XenServer 1.5.
• VMM now works on ALL mobile devices via its new Lite Mode. VMM will gracefully degrade itself to a zero-Javascript version if a fully-Ajax capable browser is not detected. You can now manage and monitor VMware and Xen from your BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device, or any phone with a web browser!
• Beta 1.5 introduces a feature we are calling Accidental Touch Detection (ATD). ATD prevents users from accidentally brushing up against a power button in full mode (as opposed to the new lite mode) and shutting down a VM. ATD requires an intentional touch (measured by a depression of 500 milliseconds).

Get beta 1.5 and read more about VMM at http://lostcreations.com/vmm/.

StorMagic’s SM Series Lite with no expiration will be available in 30 days. That’s right! In 30 days, you will have the opportunity to unlock the full potential of your ESX Server with StorMagic’s SM Series Lite. After VMware users asked StorMagic to develop an easy SAN Management solution to help users like yourselves, StorMagic is ready to release a breakthrough product redefining Shared Storage. It’s time to benefit from all the features your ESX Server has to offer and let StorMagic take you there!  And the best part? The SM Series Lite has no expiration which means you enjoy the benefits of shared storage for life!

• VMware Certified
• Turn unused internal disk drives into a virtual SAN
• Integrated into VI Center
• Single step storage provisioning
• Automatically expand you environment as your business grows
• Manage your VMs, Data Storage and O/S from 1 management tool

In 2009, VMware plans to add several new products and technologies to its virtual datacenter operating system, which dramatically simplifies computing in the datacenter. This webcast provides an overview of these exciting new products and the benefits they can bring to your datacenter by increasing infrastructure efficiency, increasing availability and reducing operating costs.

View this webcast to:

• Learn about upcoming new products from VMware.
• Evaluate the additional cost savings and increased availability from these new products.
• Find additional resources that will help prepare you to implement these in your environment.

jtroyer @davidmdavis Let us know if the VMware Sneak Peek 2009 webcast was more than Leena already presented in Vegas. http://tinyurl.com/88r5tb 39 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to davidmdavis

Carter's VMworld PowerShell session is accepted :-)

Are you vexed by VMs? Drowning in datastores? Scared of snapshots? Do you ever feel like your Virtual Infrastructure is out of control and nothing can help? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ve got a problem that only automation can solve and VMware’s free VI Toolkit (for Windows) is the best tool for the job. In this session, learn how the VI Toolkit’s powerful commands and strong community will help you get your Virtual Infrastructure under control in virtually no time.

VMware has released a part of the session and speaker Catalog, I didn’t notice any sessions which were submitted via the call for participation. There’s a lot of speculation if sessions are already rejected, I’ve seen Brian Madden, reporting his sessions is accepted.

tom_howarth I have nothing as Yet but the sessions are up on VMworld and the VMTN Expert panel is not mentioned about 1 hour ago from web

sbeaver @tom_howarth The sessions listed are all VMware employees and big time sponsors. All is not lost yet I do not think they have everything 40 minutes ago from twhirl in reply to tom_howarth

Update : Pre-registration for sessions is not available. Additional sessions and details from various presenters and speakers will be added between now and the conference, so please check back for new information.

Usually, when you need to use any USB device (like scanner, flash-memory, etc) you plug it into USB port of your computer. But for all that, the device is accessible only for the computer it is plugged into. And what if someone else needs to use the same USB device? Or if you want to use it in a virtual machine. FabulaTech has resolved this problem in a different extraordinary way. They've created USB over Network which allows to work with remote USB devices over a local network or Internet. All you have to do is to install USB over Network Server on the PC where USB devices are plugged in. USB over Network Client must be installed on the VMs you want to give access to those very USB devices you've already plugged in. That's all.

Replicate Technologies has announced a new software update for its flagship product, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer™. The new release, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer (RDA) 1.2, expands its best practices library to add IP Knowledge Modules that increase the innovative product’s ability to detect and resolve configuration issues across a broader range of network issues, provides enhanced notification capabilities and drill down diagnostics, offers an easy-to-use user interface with advanced navigation and an updated dashboard, and supports VMware ESX 3i.

RDA 1.2 offers the following new capabilities:

New IP Knowledge Module – including the ability to detect and resolve configuration issues across a broader range of network issues. RDA can now identify routing and subnet misconfiguration and can determine if a guest VM network stack is operating correctly, as well as check for duplicate IP address usage in a common subnet.

Expanded drill down diagnostics – providing data to explain issues and guide IT towards a quick resolution – going beyond the basic identification of errors to save IT time and money.

Advanced item level notification – offering email notifications which now include full details on the exact changes that RDA has detected. The detailed notifications provide IT administrators with the latest information, delivered directly to their inbox.

Broader platform support – including support for VMware ESXi.

Increased scalability – offering significant performance improvements, including enhanced support for large scale datacenters of 100+ hosts.

Registration for VMware Partner Exchange 2009 is now open! This year's much anticipated event will be hosted April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida. The theme is The Power of Partnership – VMware's partners are the cornerstone to their success and the annual event is especially designed to provide their global partner community with unparalleled educational and networking opportunities to accelerate business with VMware.