I was looking for a new wallpaper for my laptop as the old ones started to bore me. Coincidentally I ran into Sander Ras this week. Sander designed the Yellow Bricks logo almost two years ago, and I asked him if he could create a wallpaper for me based on this logo. This is what he emailed me and I really liked them so I wanted to share them with you:
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Open source VI(vSphere) Java API 2.0 GA!
For all the developers out there, I just received the following from my colleague Steve Jin:
VI (VSphere) Java API 2.0 was GAed last night. The 2.0 release represents 6 months of continuous (after work) engineering effort since this January. It has packed many features:
New high performance web service engine. When I told people that we replaced AXIS, most of them wanted me to confirm what I said. The new engine is 15X faster in loading, 4+X in de-serialization than AXIS 1.4 with only 1/4 of size.
- vSphere 4 support.
- REST client API.
- Caching framework API.
- Multiple version support with single set of APIs.
- Clean licenses. The API and dependent dom4j are all BSD licenses.
The open source project was sponsored by VMware but not supported by VMware. To download it, visit http://vijava.sf.net
VMware Studio 2.0
There’s a brand new version of VMware Studio coming up. For those who aren’t familiar with VMware Studio it basically comes down to this: with VMware Studio you can create your own virtual appliances.
Or as VMware puts it:
VMware Studio provides mechanisms for authoring, on-site management, distributing and deployment of production-ready virtual appliances. ISVs, hardware appliance vendors, and developers use VMware Studio to configure and package their solutions in a standards-based Open Virtualization Format (OVF). VMware Studio also enables software providers and developers to leverage the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, and offers built appliances all the great management services that VMware Infrastructure delivers.
New features:
- Windows Support (32 bit and 64 bit) 2003 & 2008 Server
- Create multi-VM vApp and multi-VM VA
- 64 bit support for SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 & 5.3, CentOS 5.2 & 5.3
- Extensible in-guest Management Framework
- OVF 1.0 support
- Eclipse Plugin
- Enable ESX, ESXi, VC, Server 2.0 and Workstation as provisioning engine
- Automatic Dependency Resolution (Static)
- Publish OVF to VC
- Infrastructure enhancements – GUI and Builds
- Studio-created VM as Input
VMware Studio 2.0 will be available on Monday! Better make sure to get it while it’s hot… even vStu is excited!
There’s more info to be found here.
New Sponsor: Train Signal
Yellow-Bricks.com is proud to announce a brand new sponsor; Train Signal!
Train Signal is the leading provider of computer training software for IT Professionals covering Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and VMware.
Now I could write an article praising Train Signal but there’s no point. I don’t need to convince you guys Train Signal should. David Davis(one of Train Signal’s instructors) recently posted an 18 minute introduction on his blog(vmwarevideos.com) to the upcoming VMware vSphere video training course. Check it out:
Code Central
I visit the VMTN Communities daily and recently noticed a new section called Code Central. I didn’t pay attention to it cause I thought it was a private section but apparently it is not. Nava Davuluri introduced this new section and his role within VMware recently in a blog article:
I’m Nava Davuluri, a new hire into Product Marketing. This is my third month at VMware and things are off to a great start! One of the highlight events at my job so far includes attending the new vSphere launch, where I got to see business leaders in computer technology talk about how VMware products are increasing efficiency(performance, power and hardware) control( security and service levels) and choice (hardware, OS and application architecture) for the next-generation of cloud computing. This has given me a perspective on how important these products are and also made me realize the importance of my role.
I was hired to manage the sample code arena for developers and system administrators that make up the majority of VMware developer community. My biggest goal here is to make your life easier. Yes!, by creating a community based sample code site where it will be easy to create, collect and share sample codes in one single straight forward page.
Some people have started adding scripts to this new section of the community already, take a look and contribute!
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/codecentral
http://blogs.vmware.com/codecentral/