VMware launches Cloud Infrastructure products
Yesterday as most of you know was the biggest launch in VMware’s history. Being inside the company at this moment in time is very exciting, especially working specifically in cloud computing technology. I thought I would share a quick highlight of the new products and to provide some links to information on the web to help you find more information. 5 New products VMware vSphere 5 VMware vCloud Director 1.5 VMware vShield 5 VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 VMware vSphere 5 vSphere is the underlying virtualisation technology that makes cloud computing possible. Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) at Yellow-Bricks has written some nice articles on the new features available in vSphere 5, so I am not going to cover these. For further information on the products listed above take a look at VMware.com
Guest OS Support in VMware vCloud Director
A few people were discussing this the other day internally about why some VMs exported from vCenter to vCloud Director using vCloud Connector the OS type was displayed as Other Linux. When diving a bit deeper it turned out to be a Cent OS installation, which is not officially supported by vCloud Director. This made me think that maybe not everyone was aware of the Operating Systems supported by vCD. A lot of people believed if vCenter supported it so did vCloud Director, which is not the case, so I thought I would share the link to the published document and include the information here for quick reference. To see the full list of supported Guest Operating Systems please click here. Listed below is some of the highlights of the list. Note: All Virtual Machine hardware is Version 7 unless specified. Microsoft Windows 32-Bit Support Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 […]
vBeers – North East England
For anyone who lives in the North East of England, David Owen (@vMackem) is organising a vBeers on 18th August in Sunderland. This is quite central for everyone from Newcastle to Thirsk. Read more about it at vBeers.org I will be attending.
Top 5 Blog Articles first half of 2011
I was looking through my stats last week, and thought I would share with you the top 5 articles that people read regularly on my site. The top four are not really a surprise, as they are all hot topics for the community at the moment. HowTo: Configure PXE Manager for stateless ESXi deployments HowTo: Install PXE Manager for vCenter VMworld 2011 – Session #1264 – Private vCloud Architecture Deep Dive VMware vCloud Connector Plugin: How it fits together HowTo: Enable SSH and Remote Tech Support mode on ESXi 4.1