Browsed by
Tag: VMware

New Fling: Vmss2core by VMware Labs

New Fling: Vmss2core by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Vmss2core Vmss2core. The download is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and the total size is about 5MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Vmss2core is a tool to convert VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third party debugger tools understand. It can handle both suspend (.vmss) and snapshot (.vmsn) checkpoint state files (hereafter referred to as a ‘vmss file’) as well as both monolithic and non-monolithic (separate .vmem file)…

Read More Read More

New book by VMware: Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0

New book by VMware: Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0

VMware released a new book regarding storage design and the implementation in a vSphere 5. environment. This book will explain in about 700 pages the know how about storage. You can order it now over at Pearson or Amazon! The more important VMware virtualized infrastructure becomes, the more important virtualization storage becomes. Virtualization storage planning and management is complex, and it’s been almost impossible to find authoritative guidance – until now. In Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0, one of VMware’s…

Read More Read More

Free Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New 5.1

Free Training: VMware vSphere: What’s New 5.1

VMware announced a FREE online training course called “VMware vSphere: What’s New [5.1]” with the 5.1 release. This course is a self-paced course which lasts 1 hour and it’s available through myLearn training. This e-learning course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.1. By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding and should be able to implement the following new functions and features of VMware vSphere 5.1. Objectives Compute and Storage Support…

Read More Read More

VMware 4.1 Update 3 released

VMware 4.1 Update 3 released

After the vSphere 5.1 announcement VMware also released a new update on vSphere ESXi 4.1, ESX 4.1 and vCenter Server 4.1. What’s new? Support for additional guest operating systems: This release updates support for many guest operating systems. Resolved Issues: This release also delivers a number of bug fixes Updated VMware tools: Update 3 contains the latest version of VMware Tools Updated vSphere client: Update 3 contains the latest version of the vSphere Client Supported Upgrade Paths for Host Upgrade…

Read More Read More

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1

VMware announced vSphere 5.1 at VMworld 2012 US. VMware also released a short video about “what’s new”. What’s new? Enhanced VMotion: Leverage the advantages of vMotion (zero-downtime migration) without the need for shared storage configurations. Perfect solution for SMB. Zero downtime VMware Tools Upgrade: VMware clains that after you upgrade to the VMware Tools available with version 5.1, no reboots will be required for subsequent VMware Tools upgrades. vSphere Web client:Say goodbye to the old C# client and hello to…

Read More Read More