It’s a busy time for me being the end of the quarter, and we have tons of events going on in my patch right now. Last week I presented at the Cincinnati and Louisville Knowledge Series events on VMware View. Next week we have vCenter Operations Manager events scheduled in Cincinnati and Louisville. Attendance was great at both events, and there were some great questions from the people at both locations. Cincinnati hosted a Healthcare breakout session after the KS event, and we had lots of great interactive conversations around VMware in the healthcare segment. Hope everyone is having a great weekend, here are the top 5 posts for this week!
Luc Dekens – dvSwitch scripting – Part 9 – Traffic Shaping – Another interesting feature of a dvSwitch is the ability to use bidirectional traffic shaping. Besides the outbound traffic shaping that is available on regular virtual switches, with the dvSwitches we can also have inbound traffic shaping. The traffic shaping is defined with the three known, classical values: average bandwidth, peak and burst size.
Andre Leibovici – VDI and Storage De-Duplication: Good or Bad marriage? – In my opinion if you are doing VDI with Persistent Desktops using Full Clones you are rowing against the current. I have previously stated that Floating Pools and Linked Clones (or similar technology) is the way I believe every VDI deployment should be done (either using VMware View, XenDesktop or any other broker).
Alan Renouf – Failover of persistent desktops using SRM and View 4.6 – With View 4.6 becoming largely adopted by many businesses recently I came across an interesting use case for VMware Site Recover Manager (SRM) and View 4.6, specifically the View 4.6 PowerCLI cmdlets. Imagine this scenario (and this is just one example of why you would do this)….
Hugo Phan – VMware Tools RPM Installation with PXEBOOT and Kickstart – This article explains how to use the Operating System Specific Packages (OSPs) to install VMware Tools during the PXEBOOT and Kickstart of a Linux guest OS running on vSphere 4.1 and above. As of vSphere 4.1, the VMware Tools RPMs are no longer available on the CD image linux.iso. To install you must use the tar.gz package and install it manually.
Vladan Seget – VMware vSphere Converter Standalone 5 goes public beta – A public beta of VMware Converter Standalone 5 is available for download. One of the features which is interesting is the optimization of disk alignement of systems. I think that it’s quite evident that the full product will support vSphere 5. One can clearly see it in the release notes. The product supports more OS and some other new functionalities are present as well:
