The VMguy

Sorry for the long hiatus, vacation calls.  Spent 10 days at the beach and now ready to get back at it.

Some new papers came up while I was out.  DPM, Distributed Switches, and Chargeback.

• VMware Distributed Power Management: Concepts and Usage – DPM has great power savings to use less when the workloads are lower.  I’ve seen customers use it for server workloads but where it really hits home is desktop workloads.  Definately worth a read.
• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch: Migration and Configuration – Distributed switches – Distributed Switches are a huge administrative benefit.  This paper explains how to migrate to distributed switches in your environment.
• VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.0 Evaluator’s guide – Chargeback is great for putting fixed and variable costs to your VMs and assigning them back to lines of your business or cost centers.

Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, today’s the day.  You’re going to want to watch this just to see the people that are on the same stage together.

http://www.vmware.com/landing_pages/nextgen.html

You may notice, if you visit the site directly, that I have a new Events section on the web site (see tab at the top). It has all of the VMware events that are upcoming in the IN, KY, OH, WV and PA areas.   I’ve also started to include all of my speaking engagements on the calendar as well as the VMUGs.  The links provided will allow you to register for those events should you wish to attend.

The sidebar on the site includes a listing of the upcoming events with links to more information.  Please visit the events page for full details on all of the events (please excuse the formatting of that page, work in progress to clean up the defaults).

Thanks and I look forward to seeing you on the road!

I honestly don’t know the answer to this question but I’ve already been asked by a few customers so I’m opening it for discussion.  If you read VMware’s current EULA (Section 1.6), it describes a processor to include up to 6 cores.

Intel has announced a sweet 8-core Nehelem-EX Xeon and it will be interesting how this will apply to ESX.  As mentioned, I don’t know how ESX will license on it but with the processors hitting the street this quarter , we won’t have to wait long to find out.

I will, of course, post additional information as soon as it becomes publically available.

27 Articles new or updated this past week.  The first one is very relevant.

• We are experiencing issues with the knowledge base
• Verifying isolation mode usage in ThinApp
• Troubleshooting Adding an ESX Server Host to a VMware High Availability Cluster
• Limitations to application support in ThinApp
• Troubleshooting the build process in VMware ThinApp