Mike DiPetrillo – How to Import Existing VMs into vCloud Director – Recently I was asked by a customer how they could import VMs from an existing vSphere environment into a vCloud Director environment. This particular customer is aiming to pull VMs from an existing managed hosting business so they’ll use the third of three options that I’ve described below.For pulling VMs into vCD you basically have 3 options.
Dave Hill – HowTo: Configure PXE Manager for Stateless ESXi deployments – This is the second of two part articles on Max Daneri’s PXE Manager. The first article can be found by clicking here. In this article I will explain how to configure PXE Manager to boot stateless ESXi hosts. This is a very simple process, but saves lots of time and effort when deploying hosts that have no local storage.
Eric Sloof – Ericom AccessNow for VMware View is now Generally Available – Ericom has released their Ericom AccessNow for VMware View version 1.0 of this first-of-a-kind product. Ericom’s pure HTML5 Access to View Virtual Desktops – from any HTML5-compatible web browser including from Chromebooks. Enable users to quickly and easily connect to VMware View desktops directly from within any HTML5-compatible web browser, without requiring Flash, Java or any other software to be installed on the client.
Rick Vanover – Top 5 Tips for Migrating to ESXi – If the message was not clear enough, it is time to move away from the full install of ESX (aka ESX classic). VMware’s ESXi hypervisor — also called the vSphere Hypervisor — is here to stay. The vSphere 4.1 release was officially the last major release that will include both hypervisors.
Andre Leibovici – VDI Flash Calculator v2.3 Released + Manual – I have just uploaded a new release of the online VDI Flash Calculator. This new release offers support to two key features in VMware View that had not before been covered by the calculator. The first is the support for 1-to-Many relationship between Parent VM and Desktop Pools. Now it is possible to define how many desktop pools will use the same Parent VM. Previous versions of the calculator automatically assumed a relationship one-to-one.
