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Alberto Farronato reports: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For VMware Now Available To Many More VMware vSphere Customers - I am very happy to share some very exciting news for VMware vSphere customers: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware - VMware’s OEMed version of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) - is now available for free to customers with qualifying VMware vSphere licenses regardless of when these licenses were purchased.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for VMware is an enterprise Linux operating system based on the industry proven Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server that VMware offers to qualified VMware vSphere™ customers, together with subscription to patches and updates, at no cost. Customers can also streamline their support experience by purchasing technical support directly delivered by VMware Global Support Services.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware is a highly reliable, interoperable and manageable server operating system built to power mission-critical workloads in virtual environments and optimized to run on VMware vSphere. With this affordable application foundation, companies can cost-effectively deliver core business services, enable secure networks, simplify heterogeneous infrastructure, and maximize efficiency and value. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware carries the same independent software vendor (ISV) application certifications of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-SLES-GettingStartedGuide-EN.pdf

Sign in to the new VCP private portal to enter the VCP4 Store, where you can get VCP4 logo wear and take pride in the accomplishment of your certification! Purchase a professional quality shirt that will distinguish you as a VMware Certified Professional.

http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=85823

There's also a VCP LinkedIn group which you can join. Members of this group have gained the in-depth skills and industry-recognized certification on VMware technology. The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for everyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase his potential for career advancement. If you are a VCP you can join this group.

If you don’t know what a LinkedIn group is, here is a short explanation : Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. The VMware LinkedIn Groups offers extra features stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond.

The integration of SpringSource as a division of VMware has come to a point where VMware is offering a brand new workshop which is focusing on the development of applications that can run in the cloud. The new one day workshop; Developing for the Cloud is delivered in classroom format. This week Eberhard Wolff will kick off with the first one in New York and says:

"The move to the Cloud will change the way IT services are consumed - and developed. This workshop gives a good introduction to the challenges you face when creating Cloud applications - and of course how to deal with them."

You can find Eberhard's weblog at http://jandiandme.blogspot.com/

Overview

Moving to the cloud is the next major evolutionary step for IT systems. The cloud offers a lot of clear benefits such as better resource utilization and improved flexibility – both desired by businesses. Cloud computing also offers novel and smart approaches to technical problem such as scalability or fault tolerance. Therefore it is important to adapt cloud computing and by that gain a competitive advantage.However, developing software that runs well in cloud environments is a difficult and demanding task. Completely new levels of scalability must be supported. New approach and new architectures are emerging and need to be supported. This Workshop will teach the basics of cloud technologies and how to develop software for it.
 
 
Objectives    

•  Understand the advantages of Cloud technologies
•  Understand challenges when developing software for the Cloud
•  Learn about the impact of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) such as Amazon S3 or VMware vCloud on software development and how to use it efficiently
•  Comprehend the PaaS (Platform as a Service) approach and some typical implementation such as Google App Engine, VMforce or Cloud Foundry
•  Find out how to architect applications for the cloud and how to develop applications for the cloud using Spring Roo

A few days ago I’ve posted an article called “Hey Drummonds forget SSD – RAM is the future” on my website. In this article I’m showing a proof of concept with a recorded demo with some performance measurement on an VMFS with live virtual machines in RAM. It attracted a lot of comments. Of course I know when you lose power you also will lose your VMFS, but maybe that’s not a real problem. It’s depending on what type of virtual machines you are hosting and there’re other techniques like FT to create a higher level of availability to protect the virtual machines from host failures.

One of the people who commented on the article is Steve Jin, he’s running a great weblog called DoubleCloud. Steve has pointed me to a research project from Stanford University called RAMCloud. VMware founder Mendel is involved in this project. The paper “The Case for RAMClouds: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM” can be downloaded from this location.

Disk-oriented approaches to online storage are becoming increasingly problematic: they do not scale grace-fully to meet the needs of large-scale Web applications, and improvements in disk capacity have far out-stripped improvements in access latency and bandwidth. This paper argues for a new approach to datacenter storage called RAMCloud, where information is kept entirely in DRAM and large-scale systems are created by aggregating the main memories of thousands of commodity servers. We believe that RAMClouds can provide durable and available storage with 100-1000x the throughput of disk-based systems and 100-1000x lower access latency. The combination of low latency and large scale will enable a new breed of data-intensive applications.

Members of this group have gained the in-depth skills and industry-recognized certification on VMware technology. The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for everyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase his potential for career advancement. If you are a VCP you can join this group.

If you don’t know what a LinkedIn group is, here is a short explanation : Many professionals advance their careers and business goals by counting on industry and professional groups, alumni organizations, industry conferences and corporate alumni groups to help them make vital new business contacts. The VMware LinkedIn Groups offers extra features stay in touch with one another and discover powerful new business contacts within their groups and beyond.

Flex is already in use in two VMware applications in the VMware management suite: VMware View (which delivers personalized virtual desktops as a managed service) and VMware vCloud Director (which enables provisioning, deploying, and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds). Moving forward, the Flex footprint expands into VMware's broad customer base with its next-generation management console for vSphere. VMware's 25,000-plus strong partner and customer ecosystems will soon be able to leverage Flex to integrate their solutions into the VMware management UIs. Join the VMWare team to hear about how they use Flex to improve VMware product experiences. 
 

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Eric Siebert over at vSphere-Land has published the results of the best VMware/Virtualization blog election. The winner is Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com, followed by Chad Sakac from Virtual Geek at second and Scott Lowe at the third place. I’m maintaining my position at the fourth place. I want to thank all the voters and Eric Siebert in special for all his hard work.

vChat - Episode 8 - VMware Virtualization Blog Awards 2010

In this episode Eric, David, Simon and Special Guest, John Troyer count down the Top 25 VMware Blogs as voted by the VMware virtualization community on the vSphere-Land website.. We have a special introduction by VMware CTO, Dr Steven Herrod - WOW!

1.   @DuncanYB
2.   @sakacc
3.   @scott_lowe
4.   @esloof
5.   @Mike_Laverick
6.   @FrankDenneman
7.   @ericsiebert
8.   @jasonboche
9.   @alanrenouf
10. @gabvirtualworld
11. @SimonLong_
12. @hany_michael
13. @vmguru_nl
14. @Kiwi_Si 
15. @vStewed
16. @eric_gray
17. @drummonds
18. @rick_vmwaretips
19. @Forbes Guthrie
20. @rbrambley
21. @LucD22
22. @mikedipetrillo
23. @vladan
24. @lynxbat
25. @lamw

VMware vCenter AppSpeed provides proactive performance management and service-level reporting for services running within virtual appliances. By analyzing the traffic that flows between end users, Web applications, and back-end servers, AppSpeed provides visibility into multitier services and enables rapid identification of performance issues originating from inadequate resource allocation and service problems.

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