This week’s APAC Virtualization Roundtable features Duncan Cambridge, Senior Enterprise Management Solutions Specialist at VMware, and Darren Byrnes, director at Synergistex.
Together, the team will cover two products of the recently announced VMware vCenter Product Family that were incorporated to the portfolio as part of the EMC Ionix acquisition.
vCM – VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
vADM – VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
This week APAC Virtualization Roundtable features Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick). Mike is a book writer, interviewer, blogger, VMware & Citrix trainer, virtualization evangelist. His most recent book Administrating VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is available on PDF from lulu.com and his blog and video chinwags can be found at http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
It’s possible to build a basic View 4.0 environment using VMs under VMware Workstation and a lot of people have already discussed the use of VMware Workstation or Player to run ESX in a VM. I wasn’t happy with either of these solutions mostly because i couldn’t use all of the RAM in my laptop and performance of nested VMs (in order to get PCoIP) isn’t very good.
Update: I have blogged about vSphere 5 under VMware hosted virtualization, for VCP training purposes.
My choice is to run ESXi (part time) on my main laptop and use my shiny new netbook as the client. These two machines can go in my cabin baggage, along with the other essentials for a five day trip to teach a VMware course.
Due to a number of people asking about my upcoming schedule of courses or availability for consulting engagements I have setup a page listing my current commitments. It is currently showing the next four months, after that I don’t have a lot scheduled at present.
I will try to keep it up to date but if you have a specific requirement do contact me directly
A great show thansk to my awesome guests, Alan Renouf (@AlanRenouf) Luc Dekens (@lucd22) and Hal Rottenberg @Halr9000
Lots of links to good places after the break, thanks to Greg Mulholland (@g_mulholland) for providing them in the chat during the podcast
This week I (@demitassenz) will be hosting the APAC Virtualisation Roundtable Podcast (should we call it the AVRP?) Joining me will be a panel of PowerShell specialists, including Alan Renouf (@alanrenouf), Hal Rottenberg (@halr9000) and Luc Dekens (@LucD22).
Following on from my disaster with returning a failed disk to the SATA RAID in my lab ESXi hosts (“Mark Online” may cause corruption, should have chosen “Rebuild Disk”), I had the above issue with my vCentre server and reconnecting the resurrected ESXi host.
In this week’s podcast, if talkshoe.com allow us, Andre (@andreleibovici) will host Doug Hazelman (@vmdoug), Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) and Alex Hooper (@vmhooper) from Veeam Software.
“Here it goes nothing!”…
Veeam is a VMware partner and has produced a number of backup and management tools to facilitate the day-to-day administration of virtual environments. Veeam Backup & Replication suite won the GOLD 2009 Product of the Year Award.
In the meantime go to Veeam website and download their Veeam Monitor 4.5 Free Edition for VMware.
At Citrix Synergy last week Citrix talked up their client hypervisor and even released XenClient for you to test. Rumour has it that the next version of VMware View missed a ship date to wait for VMware’s client hypervisor (I have no inside knowledge and am making up rumours as I go). Of course Virtual Computer’s nxTop has been a shipping client hypervisor for months. Client virtualisation is the new desktop virtualisation. It’s being talked of as a great class of product with a big future, but it’s done wrong.
I will be hosting this week and my spcial guest will be Chris Lockery from Citrix, we will be discussing VDI with Citrix XenDesktop and the wider Citrix product suite.
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