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VMware ThinApp 4.5 released!

Sven Huisman — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:45:09 +0000

VMware announces the availability of ThinApp 4.5: VMware today announced the availability of VMware ThinApp 4.5, enabling rapid adoption of Microsoft Windows 7 in the enterprise by ensuring compatibility for legacy and custom applications across any Windows desktop operating system environment. ThinApp 4.5 enables enterprises to quickly migrate existing applications to new operating systems such as [...]

VMware View upcoming features

Sven Huisman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:10:28 +0000

Today I joined the VMware communities podcast. The topic of this podcast was VMware View and John Dodge of VMware was on the phone. I’ve heard some interesting things today, which I think are worth sharing. Win7 support? In the next release. Next minor or next major release? Next release will be a major release. Brand new UI for the [...]

Citrix announces XenApp 6!

Sven Huisman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:50:06 +0000

Today Citrix announced XenApp 6, which will be available starting March 24th. XenApp6 will only be available on Windows 2008 R2 (x64 only). Alongside XenApp 6, Citrix will also make available XenApp 5 Feature Pack 3 for Windows Server 2003 and 2008. XenApp 6 offers major new enhancements that simplify computing for IT, including easier central [...]

VMware View 4.0.1 released

Sven Huisman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:32:28 +0000

VMware released VMware View 4.0.1 yesterday: What’s New in View Manager 4.0.1 VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. For details, see the Resolved Issues section. This release includes the following new features. Localization of VMware View The View Client and online help for View Client are now available in Japanese, [...]

NetApp Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0 now available!

Sven Huisman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:14:11 +0000

NetApp just announced the release of the Rapid Cloning utility (RCU): NetApp is proud to announce the release of the Rapid Cloning Utility 3.0. This release brings many new features to assist virtual data center administrators with managing their server and desktop environments to further reduce management overhead associated with traditional storage deployments. Here is a list of some of the new or [...]

VRC: Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500

Sven Huisman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:40:09 +0000

The “Project Virtual Reality Check” team just released a new whitepaper: “Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500“. “If you are looking for an independent advise and a ‘Reality Check’ in relation to Virtualizing Terminal Server and Desktop workloads, if you are curious about the impact of different hypervisors and the performance [...]

ThinApp licensing

Sven Huisman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:56:14 +0000

Yesterday during VMware vForum I was asked how ThinApp was licensed. I did know that ThinApp was licensed per device. But what does that mean, per device? What if I use the ThinApped applications on Citrix XenApp servers, do I have to pay a license per Citrix XenApp server? What if I put the ThinApp [...]

vSphere cluster: max 4 ESX hosts per “location” because of HA limitations?

Matthijs Haverink — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:48:27 +0000

Not a lot of info is found when you Google for manually selecting/fixing the primary HA nodes in a VMware VI or vSphere environment. Of course Duncan Epping has a couple of extremely interesting posts on Yellow-Bricks.com concerning HA even when it comes down to selecting or promoting the HA status of ESX nodes (a must [...]

VMware View and ThinApp Integration Guide

Sven Huisman — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:17:05 +0000

Aaron Black from VMware posted a VMware View and ThinApp Integration Guide on his blog. “The guide discusses several of the topics covered in the previous posts but brings it all together with some task based scenarios that walk you through initial setup and configuration with screenshots and sample scripts.” The guide should give answer to the [...]

vSphere bug can bring down entire cluster (not fixed in Update1).

Matthijs Haverink — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:44:13 +0000

Last month I was on-site at one of my customers and experienced a major problem on the vSphere environment. We suddenly experienced about 150 virtual servers running on 16 hosts in 2 clusters (on the same SAN) going in jabber-mode. They froze, which made them unavailable for pings and other traffic. The freeze moment varied from 1 to [...]