It was an open topic week, and as usual, we covered a lot of ground. At this point, many of us are hanging out on Twitter and talking during the week, so getting together to record the podcast is a lot of fun. I highly recommend stopping by the live podcast and chat for the full experience.
As much as we're having fun, I think this week we packed a full day's seminar into an hour. If you are a VMware admin and the links below look interesting, give us a listen. Use the widget to the right, the mp3, or iTunes.
Links you can use, as expertly compiled by VMware's own Duncan Epping from Yellow Bricks. Thanks, Duncan!
VMworld Europe is being held in Cannes, February 24-26.
- It's not too late to register, and the content catalog is now up.
- This year we are having, as in past years, a VMTN Experts session, but this year it's more of a meet & greet & ask than a formal panel. More from Eric Sloof and Tom Howarth.
- VMworld Sessions, which should I attend? from VMware's Duncan Epping
- VMworld Europe 2009 – What will be revealed??? 21 days and counting… from EMC's Chad Sakac
vExperts vs vIdiots
- The vExpert public application/nomination deadline is Feb 6!
- Are you a vExpert? Original announcement and clarification.
- For every vExpert, there must be a vIdiot
VMware View Open Client
- press release: VMware Announces First Open Source Virtual Desktop Client, Enabling Partners to Optimize Devices for VMware View and Provide Low-Cost Desktop Solutions
- VMware View Open Client at Google Code
- the Open Client is not the vCenter Client. We've announced both the vCenter Server and Client will be available on Linux. Session at VMworld Europe.
- Several people have experimented with the existing VMware Infrastructure Client running on Linux using Wine (but it's not really working)
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant
- VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant overview
- How VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant bridges the ESXi management gap from David Davis
- VIMA and ESX Password Complexity (please secure your VIMA just like you would secure your Service Console.)
- New VMware Healthcheck Script from William Lam, reported by Duncan Epping
- Run esxtop from VIMA from Sven Huisman
- Two options for installing VIMA from David Davis
- VMotioning your Service Console?! from Duncan Epping
VMware RSS feeds, email subscriptions and the compatibility guide
- VMware RSS subscription portal
- Planet V12n (feed) and Planet VMware (feed)
- new! VMware Knowledgebase Blog
- VMware Knowledgebase Weekly Digest
- VMware HCL – Search the Hardware Compatibility Guide
VMotion compatability
Restoring VMFS volumes when VCB/Windows did an automount
- VCB: I forgot all about "automount disable" what now? from Duncan Epping
- How to recover your VMFS partition, a pdf from the VMware Communities
FC storage attached during upgrade/installation?
Eric Siebert's book and rough cuts preview
- VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration from Eric Siebert – Rough Cuts Preview from O'Reilly Safari Online
Run ESX within Workstation or Player
- Eric Siebert's list of resources for ESX in a VM
- xtravirt's ESX white papers, including installing ESX in Workstation 6 and ESX in Player (the Player white paper is hot off the presses!)
- VMware Virtual Infrastructure Test Environment from Dell TechCenter
- ESX in a Box with Shared Storage but… from Duncan Epping
- ESX Tools Project from Ulli Hankeln / continuum
SRM Failback
- Failback? Absolutely! Absolutely! from our new(ish) Uptime Blog
VMware client side hypervisor – we announced our vClient initiative at
VMworld 2008. If you weren't there, you can get the details from these
webcasts.
- Sneak peek: 2009 Datacenter Management Roadmap (webcast)
- Sneak peek: 2009 Desktop Management Roadmap (webcast)
- A deeper look at VMware's upcoming bare-metal client hypervisor from Brian Madden
NFL runs on VMware
