Last week VMware released Fusion update 1.1.2 with some exciting enhancements. It includes updates for the MacBook Air that address some compatibility issues that existed in the previous version. In addition, it contains a fix that adds Time Machine support to backup your VM’s in conjunction with the OS X 10.5.2 update. [...]
Infoworld has an interesting article about 3 gotchas of starting to use virtualization in a corporate environment:
You may not get the hardware savings you expect
Getting the right staff experience is a challenge
Performance boosts aren’t always what they’re cracked up to be
These are important to think about and figure out how to tackle if your company [...]
Xenocode is a new take on virtualization technology. Xenocode makes it possible make single executables for virtual applications. This makes virtualization of applications very easy. Just double click the portable executable flle and it will open (on any Windows computer).
Their website has some cool demos for you to check out. You can also read up [...]
It’s no secret that Virtualization is at the top of the “Green Tech” charts these days. Check out VMware’s Green IT resource page here! It even includes a green calculator to assess the impact your virtualization project will have on your carbon footprint.
Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day would be a good time to remind you that virtualization is very good for the environment. Instead of running a room full of servers that are not necessarily always under high demand or load, it can be cut down to 1 or 2 powerful servers. Overall, the savings for the environment [...]
We mentioned moka5 a while back when it was still in beta. It has come a long way since then.
Mokafive is centralized program that takes virtual appliances to the next level. It is very easy to setup, and the main advantage of using it is that the virtual appliances you download will remain up to [...]
VMware has released Beta 2 of the upcoming VMware Server 2.0. It provides some major advances forward in functionality, whereas Beta 1 was more or less a cosmetic improvement from the current release of VMware Server.
New features in the latest 2.0 build include:
Updated VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface: With the faster performance, [...]
In using VMware ESX (3.0) in our QA/DEV environment we have the opportunity to put it to the test quite often. One of the features of ESX that we rely on heavily is the snapshot features, particularly when setting up new test environments. One pitfall that we discovered is that if certain hardware [...]