VirtInfo: Short Takes
Here’s a weekly round up on interesting issues concerning virtualization…
PXE booting the ESX3i Kernel
From Chris Wolf’s website I’ve seen a couple for very interesting posts. Firstly, if your curious about PXE booting the ESX3i product, there’s this post:
http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=182
Oracle support for Virtual Machines
Chris also kicks some butt on the issue of poor quality support from Oracle for virtual machines
http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=181
Who has the most cost effective virtual infrastructure
There’s been a number of attempts the costs of various virtual infrasture platforms. I really have a lot of time for Chris assessment after he opened my eyes to some licensing gotchas in Canne this year
http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=180
Vi3book Review….
Chris has some very nice comments for our Vi3 book. There seems to have been a very high and unexpected and high demand for the book which has occasionally lead it to be sometimes in and that out of stock on various website. Bear with us we will get it to you!
http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=179
Meanwhile David Marshall has been bizzy on his blog too.
DR a hot topic:
Of interest to me personally, David flagged up a survey that shows that DR is THE top issue for organisations. As you might know I’m busy on writing my book on VMware’s DR tool, Site Recovery Manager. It’s nice to know I’m writing about a topic which is topical!
I passed out a first draft of my SRM book to reviewers this week, to harvest some corrections and initial feedback. David is on the list too, which prompted him to blog about it…
VMware Education Launch a New Certification Programme
Well, it been long its generation (I remember talk about this in 2006 at VMworld LA) but its finally out. I’ve been told that VMware does not expect the world and his wife to achieve the certification. Perhaps your a candidate:
VMware’s VDM wins Visual Studio Magazine’s 2008 Readers Choice Awards
This was a suprise to me. I wasn’t especially bowled over myself by VDM. It does the job that a broker does, I guess after many years of doing Citrix – getting an SSL channel to XP desktop doesn’t fire my passion as it should. Nonetheless the readers of the mag rated it
From MS Virtualization FUD Machine, er I mean Blog…
Heck, lets have this for the hell of it – its another one these curiously sounding customer testomonies – what’s curious about them. Well, they all have the seem tone… erm like they have been written by the same person in a PR team. Like companyname with other company name.
http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/08/05/guest-post-maximumasp-and-hyper-v.aspx
Well, I guess in a couple months – the PR party will move on to some other MS offering like taking on google or the-next-big-buzz word. Let’s see that will be “cloud”…
From the Register – Symantec offer a Broker and Application Streaming
Is there anyone who doesn’t have a brokering offer and some way of streaming applications to that desktop? Heck, I think RTFM should have one if the world-and-his-wife-does. Anyway, Symantec has one now called AppStream. So that’s SoftGrid, ThinApp, AppStream. So I’m thinking I will call mine SoftApp or ThinGrid, SoftStream… 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/05/symantec_buys_nsuite/
From the VMTM Team Blog – Vi3.5 Update 2
Want to learn more about the new features in 3.5 U2… Well, he’s a round up of the key features and what they do for us
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