Today’s announcement of an expanded VMware / Novell partnership was interesting in many ways… the licensing aspect, the support aspect …but none moreso (for me at least) than the virtual appliance aspect. In case you missed that part, VMware will be adopting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SLES, as the single platform for their virtual appliances. [...]
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A new version (1.3) of the HP ESXi Offline Bundle has been released for ESXi 4.0 Update 1. Now I don’t normally tend to post about patch releases because… well, I just don’t really see the value in posting that a patch was released and leaving it at that. But this is a little different. [...]
I know, this one caught me totally by surprise as well, but it’s true. We don’t actually use this switch when creating vmdk’s, but after seeing some _shocking_ statistics from our environment, whereby most VM’s with additional vmdk’s were using under 10% of their provisioned space, I decided to look into it. Now I certainly [...]
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By admin | January 7, 2009
I was under the impression that some of these products were still in super secret squirrel status, but as they’re now appearing on the VMware Products homepage, I guess that’s no longer the case! Since you’re all going to go and check out the VMware spiel anyways, I won’t bother repeating it here. What I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Miscellaneous |
By admin | January 1, 2009
I finally got around to OVF’ing a Windows XP build. Although I have an unattended setup XP .iso which makes building XP VM’s hassle free and pretty fast, it’s obviously nowhere near as hassle free and fast as deploying from OVF! Although you can import OVF’s with VMware Workstation, it’s a bit cumbersome. I’ve also [...]
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By admin | December 10, 2008
I’m not going to try and claim credit for this development, but Rich Brambley (the only blog with a description that I feel outshines my own broke the news today that the free version ESXi 3 Update 3 appears to have a fully functional API. I plan on testing this out tomorrow, and will report [...]
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