This week, for the first time, I gave a course about managing en configuring a VMware vSphere enviroment.
Almost every aspect of vSphere was addressed in this course, oa:
- vCenter (Linked Mode)
- Distributed Switches
- Fault Tolerance
- VMotion
- High Availability
- Dynamic Resource Scheduler
- Private VLAN’s
- Storage Plugin (including multipath for ISCSI)
- Host Profiles
- Snapshots
- Template and Clones
I was a bit nervous (not much because I’m not the guy who gets nervous easily) because I developed this course myself. It took almost 3 week in September to developed this course. So, why not giving it in November I hear you think ;-). Simple I was on my honey moon that month.
The course went very well, average grade was a 8.
I must say that if you put much effort something like developing a course and the course goes smoothly, this gives you lots of pleasure.
So, if you are Dutch or from Belgium and you want to follow a nice pratical VMware vSphere course you can sing up here.
For the last 3 weeks, I’m giving training through the country, so I haven’t been able to write any post because lack of time.
During a break I was looking at the Coolsolution site of Novel and read a real nice upgrade guide to OES2 SP2 witch can be use full. So I thought to post it out here for you guys and for my own documentation.
Yesterday VMware released View 4.0 with the new PC-over-IP protocol who will replace the RDP protocol for View.
View will run on vSphere the latest version of the ESX range. Two versions will be availible, View Enterprise Edition who is going to cost 150 dollar per user, and View 4 Premier Edition who is will cost 25o dollar per user.
The Enterprise version contains vSphere, vCenter and the View Manager. The Premier edition has the View Composer (for Linked Clones) en ThinApp4 (for application virtualization) extra.
For better performance VMware introduced the PC-over-IP protocol from Teradici. VMware ported this hardware protocol to a software protocol. Thanks to this protocol multimedia support is much better.
VMware say’s View 4 is interesting for companies who want to use Windows 7 in there environment. In my option running View on vSphere is also a a pro.
VMware annouced that they will be working together with Cisco, Dell, EMC en HP for hardware for View.
You can read all the stuff I wrote on View over here.
For now it’s just a rumor, but the word is that there will be a a Brainshare Europe edition and that the city will be Amsterdam!
The date will be 18 until 21 of may 2010. The exception is that in the next few weeks Novell will announce this.
In the past Brainshare Europe was not as interesting as Brainshare in Salt Lake City. The session in Salt Lake where just better than in Europe.
But Novell reorganized the concept of Brainshare as a result of less intressed of people in Brainshare. Als you all will know Brainshare in 2009 was cancelled.
Because I’m from Holland I will certainly admit to Brainshare Europe is it’s in Amsterdam! What about you?
My vacantion is almost over. I’m writing this post between to fly-ts on the airport of HongKong. But I read in my email that VMware Workstation 7 is out!
New features are:
- VMware Workstation 7 is optimized for maximum performance when running on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 PCs and works seamlessly with Flip 3D and Aero Peek to show live virtual machine activity.
- Beter 3D Graphics. For working with Windows Aero, DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.1
- VMware Workstation 7 streamlines software development and testing with new IDE integrations for the SpringSource Tools Suite and Eclipse IDE for Java & C/C++ along with Record Replay Debugging improvements that make it faster to find non-deterministic bugs.
You can get a upgrade license here.
VMware | Michael November 19, 2009 | 
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