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Performance and Best Practices for VMware vCenter Update Manager 5.0

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New white paper from VMware addressing some performance best practices has been released. You’ll find the setup being used in the test, the configuration of the network, hosts, the deployment method used for the VUM software and the different choices depending of size of virtual infrastructure. The different sections: – VUM Server Host deployment – […]

New video from VMware showing View 5 vs Xen Desktop 5.5

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Comparing Flash website user experience between View and Xen Desktop. I just found this newly published video on YouTube. This video was done by VMware and shows you the user experience, side by side, between VMware View v 5.0 and Xen Desktop v 5.5. Three different tests are showed in this video. 1) youtube Flash […]

VMware Workstation 8 new features detailed

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New Features of VMware Workstation 8 detailed. VMware Workstation 8 has been installed on my laptop the day it went out and since then, I find that I need to less juggle between the VMware vSphere client and VMware Workstation 8, since I’m connecting directly to my lab datacenter or at the datacenter at work directly […]

Xangati Management Dashboard review

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Xangati’s recent product enhancements plus full detail product features. Xangati has recently announced a new version of the Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) Suite which consist of the VI Dashboard and VDI Dashboard. Both products are fully compatible for VMware vSphere 5 and Xangati has been demoing both products during recent VMworld 2011 at Las Vegas. […]

Installation of VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8

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My video showing the installation steps on how to install VMware ESXi 5 inside of VMware Workstation 8. Why would one want to run nested ESXi 5? Because of the flexibility of such a solution. You can add more NICs to your “virtual ESXi”, more storage (just add another hard disk…), and more. For testing this […]

Playing with Workstation 8 and Windows 8 tech preview

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I installed a new VM of Windows 8 inside of my VMware Workstation 8 I thought that I’d share my experience of running Windows 8 (tech preview release) as a VM in my freshly installed VMware Workstation 8. In fact no tweaks are necessary. I just selected Windows 7 as a model and pointed it […]

Performance of Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere 5

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A new whitepaper from VMware shows the performance on  vSphere 5. In this Whitepaper you’ll see the compare results of vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5 by running Exchange 2010 Mailbox server. A tool called Microsoft Exchange Load Generator 2010 was used to run those tests. LoadGen runs on a client system and simulates the messaging […]

Connect to ESX(i) server to copy-paste your VM from VMware Workstation 8

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Here is a very cool feature of VMware Workstation which change a bit the way we work today. In fact, the new version of VMware Workstation 8.0 can connect to ESX(i) server or vCenter. Then, if you have some VMs stored locally on your PC, you can copy paste them directly to your ESX(i) host. […]