Sep

1

VMware Keynote Cont..2

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Paul focusing on SMB’s and getting virtualization into the datacenter. Mentioning the new VMware GO offering for small businesses.

  • Web Base services targeted at SMB customers
  • Helps automate ESXI configuration
  • Bridges community

Paul going back to discussing the Cloud offerings and working with the service provider community. Enabling the ability to pick up a virtual datacenter and slide it into a cloud. First thing that comes ot my mind is security! Businesses may be wary of the security aspects. Paul now discussing how to move apps out of the cloud if needed.

The Cloud – 1000 service providers working with VMware on the vCloud initiative.

Announcing a new offering called vCloud Express – A way to get fast and “cost effective” cloud implementations completed.
vCloud Express Demo.

vCloud Express about $1 a day for a server. Great choice for price point and cloud initiative. The demo highlights a very easy registration and setup process all over the web. Since it is vSphere based, all OS are supported for VM’s. Very impressed with this offering to expand the vCloud initiative. All of this is based on today’s formal announcement of the vCloud API’s.

Next Post..VMware View

Aug

12

VMware View New Reference Architectures And Some Notes on Monitoring View

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VMware released several new reference architectures today related to VMware View. The VMware View reference architecture itself has been out for a while. This is a helpful guide in giving example architecture and sizing best practices.

In addition to the VMware View reference architecture, the VMware View WAN Reference Architecture and VMware ThinApp Reference Architecture are now available. These two documents expand on WAN optimization best practices and ThinApp application deployment methods that the initial View reference architecture did not expand on.

The use cases in the reference architectures appeared to be helpful and the tips outlined were too.

One item I’d like to see more on is monitoring of the VMware View components and monitoring from end-to-end to ensure a quality user experience. From an architecture and planning perspective this capability should also be taken into account. This will facilitate being able to identify where issues actually are. For example, is the issue latency, virtual desktop performance issue, or endpoint issue?  I’ve been asked the monitoring question several times. Citrix provides a great solution called EdgeSight. VMware also has recently released vCenter AppSpeed which may help some in end-to-end monitoring. There are several vendors that appear to have solutions for a VMware View environment. There may be more, but these are a few below:

http://www.aternity.com/desktop-virtualization.htm

 http://www.rtosoft.com/products/PinPoint/PinPoint.htm

 http://www.eginnovations.com/web/vmware-distinguishingfeatures.htm