Well, its been eventual week – with information from VMware VIP Central leaking out to the internet – the news that ESX3i will become free… Virtualization.info was there first, followed by Chris Wolf – and then RTFM… The information has been confirmed by the leak of VMware VIP email. Offical announcement on the 28th by the sounds of things.

If you want to get a real in depth round up on the significance of this move – you could do with looking at Mike DiPetrillo analysis here:

http://mikedatl.typepad.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/07/esx-35i-for-fre.html

Putting this big change to one-side – here’s a round up of interesting tit-bits around virtualization.

Beake.info – ThinApp 4.0:
On the his very popular Geert Baeke – has been some very nicely put together mini-tutorlals on ThinApp. I’ve not looked at ThinApp at all. I’ve been to busy with my VMware Site Recovery Manager book and my teaching commitments. But when I have the time I want to look at this – I was impressed by ThinInstalls model

http://blog.baeke.info/blog/_archives/2008/7/17/3797309.html
A bunch of Chris Wolf Blog Posts:
Chris Wolf has a couple of interesting blog posts this week – along with commentry on the whole ESX3i is free business. First up is a blog post about a AMD’s Nest Page Tables… in case you don’t this hardware assist for memory – rather than hypervisor having to work hard to map virtual machine memory to physical machine memory – it can be offloaded to the CPU. Of course VMware & Xen both support this new process enhancement

http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=174

Second up, is Chris’s perspective on the whole Dianne Green debacle. Like me Chris was on holiday when this story blew up – so Chris is offering some more reflected considered opinon

http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=173

A Bunch of David Marshall Post:
Over on David Marshall’s vmblog.com we have story – where Microsoft exec claim they are taking a slice of VMware’s pie.

http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/07/24/microsoft-executive-co-winning-business-from-vmware.aspx

I must admit – I’m treating what MS is saying about this with a pinch of salt. I was over on serversearchvirtualization.com where one of their reports was saying they could get from Microsoft – one SINGLE independent customer with a user story to tell.

David also reports that VMware have opened a VMware PowerShell scripting contest with various prizes. If you handy with PowerShell – head over to here:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/reg/toolkit

Barak Obama caused HyperV to reboot:
In a slight humourous blog post Mike DiPetrillo explains why the democractic nominee for the office of the President – might cause Windows HyperV to reboot

http://mikedatl.typepad.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/07/obama-forces-hy.html

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