Eric Sloof

VMware Go™ is a Cloud based application that enables you get up and running with VMware virtualization in a completely automated fashion. Developed in partnership with Shavlik Technologies, LLC to provide you with the latest in automated VM focused management.

Create a new ESXi Server
VMware Go™ can easily install a new ESXi server. Once up and running you'll be able to add VMs and build your VM environment.

 
Add VMs to an Existing ESXi Server
It's easy to discover existing ESXi servers that you already have and use VMware Go™ to add VMs and manage your existing ESXi environment.

 
Manage ESXis and VMs
The "Manage ESXis/VMs" control panel allows you to make changes to your VM environment from one easy to use web interface. 

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The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. The vCloud API allows for upload and download of vApps along with their instantiation, deployment and operation.

Documentation

vCloud API Programming Guide v0.8

vCloud API Specification v0.8

vCloud API v0.8 schema definition files

Admin API v0.8 schema definition files

Entrigue Systems is the creator of a really cool profile tool called ProfileUnity; an enterprise-level user profile and configuration management solution for VDI and traditional Windows desktops.

ProfileUnity offers some specific Benefits for VDI Environments. A key benefit to running a VDI environment is that users can be provisioned a pristine machine, free of conflicts and bugs, at every logon. This reduces TCO through lower support costs and translates to satisfied users. To  provide  this  benefit,  an  organization’s  VDI  must  be  configured  to  offer  non-persistent desktops at  logon.  One major drawback of this is that user data is lost from one logon to the next.   Until now, this has left organizations with little option than to only offer persistent VMs to users at logon. With persistent logons, numerous benefits to running VDI are lost. ProfileUnity completely solves this dilemma by making user profiles portable across non-persistent VMs.  

ProfileUnity  Pro  adds  powerful  automated  desktop  configuration  and  deployment  integrity  features such  as  the  ability  to  create  application  shortcuts,  map  drives,  install  printers,  and  auto-configure Outlook  MAPI  profiles.  The solution can also modify environment variables, adjust Internet proxy settings, configure RDP connections, and further customize client machines during user logon.  ProfileUnity Pro includes the following enterprise class capabilities:

• Profile Migration – Speed transition and adoption of VDI by easily migrating user profiles to VMware View, XenDesktop and leverage your existing investment
• Profile Portability – Consistent user experience, regardless of platform, i.e. VDI, laptop, traditional desktop or Windows OS version
• Integration - Fully compatible with virtual profile solutions from VMware and Citrix and adds enterprise features such as profile migration (including data files) and powerful administrative control options
• Profile Provisioning – Create new MAPI profiles, map drives and printers, create RDP and application shortcuts, create self documented PDF and text reports of user profile configurations for compliance and disaster recovery and more

Liquidware Labs continues to bring solutions to the market that enables the swift and elegant migration from legacy desktop platforms to virtual desktops. Integration and release of new products based on the core Entrigue offerings will be announced and demonstrated at VMworld 2009 on booth 1438K in the New Innovator Pavilion.

I’ve just been informed by an unnamed but very reliable source about the outcome of my VCP4 beta exam..... I passed it!!! I was the first one to break the news on Twitter, but soon after some of the other fellow vExperts also shared their happiness. The first VCP4 graduates worldwide are:

Jase McCarty (@jasemccarty)
William Lam (@lamw)
Eric Sloof (@esloof)
Rick Scherer (@rick_vmwaretips)
Kenneth van Ditmarsch (VirtualKenneth)
Wade Holmes (@wholmes) -> VCDX

You definitely have to attend Scott Herold’s session (DS-16) at the VMware Developer day or Carter Shanklin’s PowerShell session at the VMworld 2009. In those two sessions you might see the new version of the  Virtualization EcoShell 1.2 in action. Since I’m not attending but delivering a VMware ICM training instead :-( Scott Herold was kind enough to let me do some pre-testing with version 1.2. The upgrade went smooth. The first new feature that stroke my eye was the Chart tab in the Grid. After some customization , I was able to create really cool charts. You can select different types like Area, Column, Doughnut, Line, Scatter, Stacked Area and Stacked Column. The horizontal axes labels hold the category and can be fed by everything that’s measurable. You can also select multiple legend entries.

 http://www.thevesi.org

Need complete access to your PC or virtual machine from the palm of your hand? With Wyse PocketCloud™, it's no problem! From the leader in thin-computing, PocketCloud allows you to view and manage your PC and your virtual Windows desktop anytime and anywhere on your iPhone or iPod touch.

VMware View 3.1 Certified

Support for:

•Direct connections and advanced tunneling
•SSL encryption
•Experimental support for RSA Two-Factor Authentication

http://www.wyse.com/products/software/pocketcloud/

Onyx generates code to help you solve your toughest automation challenges.

See the full demonstration with a complete explanation of how to use Onyx at VMworld -- session VM2241. Bring your business card if you want to be 1 of ten beta (maybe VMware should make that alpha) testers.

In this demo xcud takes a familiar PowerCLI one-liner scraped from a popular PowerCLI blog (http://peetersonline.nl), convert it into a workflow using PowerWF, deploy it to PowerScripter, then call it directly from the vSphere client via PowerScripter. Don’t forget to drop by at the PowerWF booth located at the VMworld New Innovators Pavilion.

To discover the hottest new virtualization trends, visit the New Innovators Pavilion, there you’ll find companies with a virtualization product new to the market within the last two years.

The new Innovators on the floor include:

AFORE Solutions
Arista Networks
DataGlobal
fuid Operations
GoGrid Cloud Infrastructure
HotLava Systems
InContinuum Software
Liquidware Labs
PowerWF Studio
SANRAD
Scapa Technologies Ltd.
Sendmail, Inc
Tranxition
Wanova
Xangati - App Performance

Don’t forget to stop by at the VMware Communities and Blogger Lounge, you’re invited to mix and mingle with other VMworld community members and moderators. You’ll see the latest community roadmap and newly rolled-out services, while you relax on the sofas and chat. You can even participate in the community photo contest, take the “VMworld Challenge,” and get this year’s community giveaway.

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