I just noticed this excellent guide on deploying ThinApp. I would suggest that anyone that wants to start using ThinApp looks into this guide, I guess it could be considered as a “mini-course” on howto ThinApp an application: This document provides guidance for customers seeking to package and deploy applications efficiently with VMware ThinApp. It addresses most relevant deployment considerations [...]
I just received an email from my colleague Massimiliano Daneri. He wrote a script that automates the installation of the new performance reporting plugin. Richard Garsthagen already wrote an article including screenshots about the plugin by the way, take a look here: http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=276 Check the following KB articles for more info on the installation of the plugin and after reading [...]
I’ve been playing around with powershell yesterday. We needed to create over 100 VM’s and there’s no point in doing that all by hand. The customer provided us with a .csv file that contained specific info on these VM’s. It took me a while to figure out how to read the info.csv file and how to actually use it. But [...]
Before anyone starts shouting, yes I’m a VMware employee and a VMware fanatic or whatever they call it these days. One of my customers phoned me up today and wanted to discuss the fact that XenServer Enterprise is available for free. I wasn’t prepared at all which makes a discussion like this very “interesting” to say the least, especially because [...]
If we look at the VMTN community today there are a whole lot of people sharing powershell scripts, perl and even .net programs. Back in the days of ESX 2.x there wasn’t such a huge community, but there was one tool that everyone knew about and probably everyone tested and used at one point, vmktree! Lars Trøen is man behind [...]
One of the most promising blogs of this moment is definitely Frank Denneman‘s blog. Frank is a freelance consultant with a focus on virtualization and storage. His latest addition “Increasing the queue depth” is an excellent article and really shows that Frank knows what he’s talking about! When it comes to IO performance in the virtual infrastructure one of the [...]
The VMworld team has worked around the clock to get the sessions up on the website as soon as humanly possible. Thanks for the hard work, I’ve missed out on most of the sessions but will most definitely start catching up by reading, listening and watching the sessions. The General Sessions/Keynotes are free for the public, but to view any [...]
