Archive for the ‘vNews’ Category

Hi there, and welcome to this months vNews. This was delivered to a live (well, they were at the beginning!) audience at yesterdays – Leeds VMUG. I stated putting vNews online initially for folks who couldn’t make the UG event.  If you don’t know vNews is round up of virtualization news from the last month – and when delivered to a small group – it can be used to stimulate debate. For sure some of the content is pure raw news, but other stuff is contentious enough that it might stimulate discussions. If you want to take the PowerPoints that make up vNews and use them at your own user group – then feel free to download them there here (just remember to mention my name & give credit where credit is due).

In this month’s vNews I cover:

• VMware new independent global VMUG
• VMware Script-o-Mania Contest winners
• VMware discounts vSphere Essentials
• Up and Coming Saleforce.com and VMware joint venture
• Citrix XenApp6, Branch Repeater VPX, Idle Virtual Desktops
• Microsoft Virtual Desktop License changes
• Microsoft enhancements to Hyper-V via SP1 – including RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory
• The Sysprep SID Duplication Myth
• Updates from EMC and NetApp
• Round up of interesting blogs from the sphere…

vNews is also include in my podcast feeds – you can add me to your iTunes here

Below is all the links embedded in the PowerPoint/Video

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

• Hyper-threading is back
• Memory Reservations
• First Ever TPC Result; New Record

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Hi there, and welcome to this months vNews.  A monthly round up of what’s going on in the world of virtualization. Yeah, I scan all the blogs – filter out what I can and then regurgitate it for you pleasure. That doesn’t sound nice. I do these occasionally for the user groups I’m speak at, it’s part news, part tips and part personal rant.

If you want the PowerPoints they are here… and if you just want the links they are here:

VMware + EMC Eats Itself

VI3.5 Support

Chris Wolf’s take on VMware’s cherry picking of EMC Ionix

Iomega vClone

TrainSignal vSphere4 Pro Series

NetApp & VMware vSphere – Best Practises

vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide – PDF Version

Foundations for Cloud Computing with vSphere4

vSphere Session Montor 2.0

Xtravirt RDP vSphere4 Plug-in

VMware PEX – Transparent Memory Compression (TMC)

Microsoft – Linux Integration Tools for RHEL

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack/64-bit App-V 4.6

Microsoft NVSPBIND.EXE

Citrix release virtual appliances

vPivot – How you cannot trust performance data inside the guest operating sysem

vPivot – Using the Paravirtual SCSI Adapter – Performance Implictations

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Here’s a video of my vNews. It’s quite long just over an hour. Opps. Still its hard to round up news and pass comment on it meaningfully in 10 minutes. These won’t be very frequent – about one a month I think. It depends on how my user group work pans out – as I tend to cobble these together in time for a UG.

Also I think I could have made the picture-in-picture video bigger – I will know better next time. I’m investing in a green-screen so I can do it more professionally and some lighting gear too. All I need now is an attractive anchorwoman. Perhaps Carmel will do the virtual weather too… The other thing I’m thinking is I want to drop the whole PPT approach altogether – it works fine when your presenting in UG. But its all a bit static as a video (Gee, I’m really selling you this aren’t I!) So more graphics – and pictures to make it more like an actual news programme!

You can watch here or use the download button to download and play your on iPOD/iPhone. [Just click and open in iTunes]

The full version at high quality is here (beware it is 370MB). This format is suitable for play back via a projector. [Right-click and Save-As)

If you want the power-points – which include the links to the stories – they are here. If you do use them for your user group that’s fine. The PDF file contains links to each of the stories that I mention.

If you want to watch in a browser, streamed to your desktop – just click the little Video Mov graphic below!

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This is a copy of the Scottish VMUG powerpoints where I presented my vNews to a live audience of some 80+ people. I will be following through on these powerpoints by video which you can run on-screen. But for the benefit of the audience yesteday here’s the raw PowerPoints:

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