And more cool stuff announced. I know I have to stay objective and try not to sound like a cheerleader… but man did you see the latest announcements? It’s hard not to get excited, it’s hard not to be enthusiastic, the hell with it I’m not even gonna try it.
And why not one might [...]

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There are a couple of great articles out there which are definitely worth reading:

Colin McNamara - Cisco releases Nexus 1000v virtual switch for VMware
Scott Lowe - BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices (live blogging)
Scott Lowe - TA2668: VMware ESX Architectural Directions (live blogging)
Rich Brambley - TA3807: VirtualCenter Directions (live blogging)

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So there’s a new term floating around “vCenter”. So what is vCenter?
vCenter provides comprehensive management of applications and infrastructure in this flexible, fluid environment and integrates with leading systems management vendors for seamless, end to end datacenter management.
So as spectacular as this may sound, it just VirtualCenter renamed. Although not every section of the VMware [...]

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Here it is, VMware’s first announcement this week:

A Virtual Datacenter Operating System is characterized by hardware and location independent applications, service level contracts between the infrastructure and applications and a shared, dynamic infrastructure.
vCenter provides comprehensive management of applications and infrastructure in this flexible, fluid environment and integrates with leading systems management vendors for seamless, end to [...]

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By default your VirtualCenter logfiles are stored in a temp folder(as of 2.5 they are stored in: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs). VMware Wolf wrote a nice article about all the locations these log files are stuffed. For some reason I don’t get a pleasant feeling when I store my VirtualCenter (VPXD) log files [...]

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So I blogged about Kodiak a couple of days, and just received some new information. Let’s start of with the facts that weren’t clear in the first blog:

Kodiak is not open-source at this time. (We’re working on that)
We will be releasing an easy to use Open-SDK, and hope to eventually open up the entire code-base.
Kodiak [...]

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Scott already wrote about this one yesterday… A lot of people have been asking for a Linux VirtualCenter client for a long time. I’m sorry this is not the announcement for the official client. But there might be a decent Linux, Mac and Windows client coming up. There’s a beta going around of a product [...]

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