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vSphere 4.1 released, vMotion part of Standard edition.

Sven Huisman — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:10:15 +0000

VMware released vSphere 4.1 with a couple of new features like “Memory compression”, “Storage I/O Control” and much more. I’m not going to repeat all the information, because you can already read it here: Gabesvirtualworld Jase’s Place vSphere-Land VMware One thing that I don’t read is that vMotion is now part of vSphere Standard edition. And that’s a big improvement [...]

VDI comparison chart

Sven Huisman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:23:31 +0000

When you enter “VDI comparison” in google, the first hit you get is actually one of my first blogpost I published 2 years ago. The blogpost is about a VDI-broker feature comparison created by Quest. Although it was a useful document (to see which features Quest vWorkspace has), it wasn’t created by (an) independent person(s). It’s [...]

7 “challenges” migrating from XP to Windows 7 using VDI

Sven Huisman — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:00:10 +0000

Migrating to Windows 7 is something many companies will face the next couple of years. Using desktop virtualization or VDI in the process is something a lot of those companies consider (read Ruben Spruijt’s article about the different types of dekstop virtualization and the role of Windows 7). In this article I would like to point out a couple of challenges [...]

VMware View 4.5 Expected Features

Matthijs Haverink — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:30:54 +0000

Yesterday I had a presentation (not under NDA) from VMware about the improvements and features that we can expect with View 4.5 (no guarantees) and I was impressed as well as disappointed. Impressed by the small additions/improvements that together create a more mature and complete Desktop Virtualization solution. Disappointed about the fact that the feature [...]

VMware ThinApp 4.5: How to upgrade your packages?

Sven Huisman — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:26:34 +0000

A new feature in ThinApp 4.5 is the “relink” utility. With this utility, it is very easy to update all you ThinApp applications to the latest ThinApp version. The old way: Install/update ThinApp 4.5. Then rebuild each ThinApp package. The new way: Install/update ThinApp 4.5. Then use the relink utility to update your ThinApp applications: relink.exe “Mozilla Firefox.exe” The old version [...]

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 [...]