VMware Partner News

VMware Workstation is the gold standard in desktop virtualization that transforms the way technical professionals develop, test, demo and deploy software. Innovative features help developers, QA engineers, sales professionals, and IT administrators reduce hardware costs, manage risk, and streamline tasks that save time and improve productivity.

Check out the Workstation Zealot blog or see get the details and resources on VMware.com.

The Mac revolution is here, but your customers don’t want to have to sacrifice Windows functionality. VMware Fusion 3 is the best way to run Windows on a Mac. Run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting. With over 50 new features and a new ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows, it’s never been easier for your customers to run Windows on a Mac. Open more doors with Fusion 3 for anyone who wants to purchase a Mac or has one, or enhance your sale by attaching a copy of Windows, more memory, or more storage.

Check out the Team Fusion blog for all the details

On October 22, 2009 Microsoft announced the General Availability of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes Hyper-V R2. We have released a Competitive Flash to help VMware Partner Sales Teams understand the VMware positioning in regards to Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and to respond to customer questions about Hyper-V R2.

Get the Competitive Flash on Partner Central

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ is a value-add component of the VMware vCenter family of management solutions, providing capacity management capabilities for virtualized datacenter or desktop environments. CapacityIQ integrates seamlessly with VMware vCenter Server, ensuring that your virtualized infrastructure capacity is always predictable and efficiently used.

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ balances business demand with IT supply, without compromising performance, availability and security. With CapacityIQ, your IT infrastructure is guaranteed to have sufficient capacity to meet any business service level agreements.

IT organizations can leverage VMware vCenter CapacityIQ in a number of scenarios, including:

• Cost avoidance and justification. Do more with the same or less! Optimize utilization of existing hardware resources or justify any new business purchases.
• Availability and risk mitigation. Plan for potential business and service disruptions proactively by modeling the impact of an outage, failure or disaster.
• Project planning and decision-making. Model the effect of one-time strategic business changes. Quantify the results of workload consolidations, company acquisitions, additional new headcounts or deployment of multi-tiered applications.

Learn more about VMware vCenter CapacityIQ or visit Partner Central to download partner assets, including a demo and customer presentations.

VMware has just released VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, part of the VMware vCenter Product Family, Site Recovery Manager 4 provides automated disaster recovery for virtual environments. Now, with added support for Network File System (NFS) based storage replication, compatibility with VMware vSphere™ 4, and simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes it even easier for customers to confidently protect all of their virtual environments.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4 now provides:

• VMware vSphere 4 Support. Customers can now take advantage of the capabilities of VMware vSphere 4, including Fault Tolerance, for better performance and protection of applications.
• Expanded Storage Support. Lets users leverage iSCSI, Fiber Channel, and NFS storage and replication solutions
• Many-to-One Failover. Protects multiple production sites with automated failover into a single, shared recovery site

See the full product details

Get the partner assets, including a deep dive deck, customer overview, FAQ, and more

The VMware vSphere QuickStart Series is a free 4-part training series designed for new customers, new admins, and evaluators.

Part 1: Install & Configure ESXi:
VMware vSphere deployment architecture; install/configure ESXi, networking & storage, and VMware Tools; and VM creation.

Part 2: VM Management with VMware vCenter Server:
vCenter Server install/configure & back-end DB connection; user access control; ESXi/ESX host management with vCenter Server; and create/manage VMs using templates, snapshots, and thin-provisioned VM disks .

Part 3: Cluster Setup, Availability, Load Balancing:
VM cluster (resource pool) set-up; VMotion & Storage VMotion live migration; High Availability; and DRS load balancing.

Part 4: Monitoring, Availability, Backup, Next Steps:
VM performance monitoring; vCenter alarms & reports; Fault Tolerance; Data Recovery; and choosing the right VMware vSphere edition for your organization.

Register now for the live online sessions or watch the webcast replays at your own pace.

Check out the VMware vSphere QuickStart series

The newly-released VMware Studio 2.0 helps configure, build, deploy, and customize vApps in addition to virtual appliances. Studio 2.0-created software stacks can be managed from the VMware Studio web console or from VMware vCenter Server 4.

ISV partners can use this tool to author and build virtual appliances optimized for VMware vSphere 4 and VMware Infrastructure.

Get the free virtual appliance authoring tool

Just introduced at VMworld 2009, VMware Go is a new, free web-based service that enables users to quickly setup ESXi. This provides an easy on-ramp for companies new to virtualization, especially for SMBs with limited IT resources. With a running ESXi environment, they will be better qualified prospects for a robust vSphere solution.

Download the ESXi beta version and opt-into VMware Go Beta

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A new VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Plus "Fight Plan" guide is now available on Partner Central for our reseller partners. This handy guide quickly lists key selling points, market positioning, opportunity qualifying, and customer objection handling.

Download it on Partner Central

The new vCenter Lab Manager 4 Services Kit supports the delivery of paid Lab Manager Jumpstarts and can be used as a reference for customer discussions, POCs and custom Lab Manager engagements. Kits include several customer-facing presentations and consultant FAQs.

The vCenter Chargeback Services Kit is also available to support customer opportunities, Jumpstarts, POCs and services engagements involving vCenter Chargeback.

Download the services kits for Lab Manager, AppSpeed. and Chargeback