For those that might have missed it, check your iPad for an update to the VMware View client. We released an update to the iPad client that is optimized for View 5, it supports running as a background process, and brings a new look and feel to the connection manager among other features.
Arne Fokkema – PowerCLI: Migrate templates during the Enter Maintenance Mode task – Normally when you put a host into Maintenance mode the templates will stay on the host instead of being migrate to a different host. This can be very annoying if you are performing maintenance on the vSphere host and a colleague needs to deploy a VM from the template. I am running vSphere 4.1 update 1. I don’t know if this is still the case with vSphere 5. The host in Maintenance mode will look like this.
Tommy Trogden – Setting up View 5 Connection Server for the 1st time – The next part of the Connection Broker install is to setup your vCenter and Composer credentials. As with a lot of VMware’s new management user interfaces, everything is moving towards a Adobe Flex client to manage. This is great because it frees you up from having to install management applications on your device. It also makes it really handy to manage your View environment from just about any browser in any VM you happen to be in !! VERY COOL. Anyway, lets get back to the topic at hand.
Chris Colotti – vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 2 (Deep Dive) – In part one we looked at the simple challenge of how to try and balance the I/O clone traffic on more than one host. Although the fix is not ideal it does the job as best we can. I decided to take a deeper look at this with a different scenario. How does the cloning traffic flow when you are dealing with not only multiple clusters, but multiple vCenter Servers, and multiple datastores.
Eric Siebert – vSphere 5’s Storage DRS and storage profile function deliver control over storage resources – The release of VMware Inc.’s vSphere 5 brings many exciting new features and enhancements to the virtualization platform, especially when it comes to storage. Two of the biggest new features in that area are Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Profile-Driven Storage, which provide some much-needed control over storage resources.
Jase McCarty – VMware View – Better service with less $upport cost$ – I speak with customers all the time on various technologies. One such technology that I speak about is virtual desktop technologies, architecture, sizing, and so on. I don’t know if I can say that 2011 is the “Year of VDI”, but I can say I have spoken to quite a few customers about it. Remember that 2009, 2010, & 2011 were touted as the “Year of VDI.”
