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Anatomoy of a VMware Workstation virtual machine (vm)

Wed, 13 Nov 2008 20:24:04 GMT

posted by argh2xxx

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Have you ever wondered what the anatomy of a virtual (vm) is? If so, this post will show you what files make up a VMware workstation virtual machine.

New HP Servers brings Microsoft Virtualization for the masses

Mon, 9 Sep 2008 12:33:19 GMT

posted by desinformado

Immediate interoperability of Microsoft virtualization technologies with HP enterprise hardware and software offerings – including HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers, HP StorageWorks and HP Thin Client products, and HP software.

Strategy, design, transition, operation and continual improvement services for new Microsoft virtualization technologies in HP and heterogeneous environments.
Customized training to prepare customers for Microsoft virtualization products and solutions.
HP and Microsoft are expanding the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, Va., with an increased focus on the manageability, security and sustainability advantages of joint HP and Microsoft virtualization solutions. This center is targeted to the U.S. federal market.

“Customers are increasingly using virtualization to deliver lower costs and reduced risks to the business as virtualization moves from being a tactical technology toward becoming a key transformation strategy,” said Sean Hehir, vice president, Microsoft Strategic Alliance, HP. “HP has worked extensively with Microsoft to develop products and services across our portfolio that not only help customers realize the full value of Microsoft virtualization technologies, but also help them accelerate the growth of their businesses.”

“HP and Microsoft have a proven track record of delivering strong results for our customers based on our combined technology experience and industry credibility; and we deliver solutions, products and services that solve real-world business problems and provide undisputable customer value,” said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president, Infrastructure Server Marketing, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft. “HP is both a key partner and valued customer for Microsoft, and together we are helping customers obtain the full value of their Microsoft virtualization investment.”

Reduce costs, increase security and simplify management
HP ProLiant, HP BladeSystem servers and HP StorageWorks – part of the industry’s most complete platform designed for virtualization – broadly support Microsoft virtualization technologies, including Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server. HP ProLiant is one of Microsoft’s development platforms for testing and development of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone server virtualization product that will be supported on a wide range of HP ProLiant servers, providing a cost-effective solution for consolidating existing workloads.

HP Insight Dynamics – VSE, along with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM), will provide a comprehensive physical and virtual systems management environment for advanced management of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V running on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. This support is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2009.

HP Insight Control Environment delivers integrated and easy-to-use life cycle management for server and storage infrastructure across an entire Windows Server 2008 environment. HP Insight Control Software complements and extends the capabilities of the Microsoft System Center suite of products.
HP ProLiant is also management-enabled for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. HP will be including Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) features in its ProLiant management pack to help customers manage their Microsoft virtual environments running on HP servers. HP StorageWorks and HP Thin Client products will provide comprehensive support for Microsoft virtualization technologies. This offers a unique opportunity for customers to work with a single vendor to purchase and deploy a comprehensive virtualization solution.

New virtualization services and education offerings
As the largest integrator of Microsoft technologies in the world, HP has the ability to integrate and support these technologies in heterogeneous environments, helping customers address strategic or large-scale virtualization deployments and management to deliver better business outcomes.

The new HP Microsoft Virtualization Infrastructure Service offerings guide customers through a transformation of their server infrastructure, including virtualization strategy, consolidation, virtual machine management and security. Applying HP data center and system integration best practices results in a more reliable and manageable infrastructure with lower, more predictable costs. In addition, HP support services help customers increase stability in ongoing operations.
The HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Service provides customers with an understanding of HP VDI, which includes Citrix XenDesktop along with Microsoft optimized desktop technologies such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services and Windows Vista®. This service enables customers to build a reliable desktop infrastructure that reduces total cost of ownership, increases security, simplifies technology management and readily adapts to new business requirements with improved flexibility.

New customized training and education offerings include classroom training, live online training, self-paced e-learning and a variety of informal learning options. These services enable businesses to stay up to date while minimizing the time away from core business activities. HP is a worldwide Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for learning solutions.

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Is VMware dead? VMWorld 2008 opens with 14,000 participants : VMW stock continues to tank

Tue, 17 Sep 2008 01:49:34 GMT

posted by Majumdar

Well, I’ve been following VMware for about 5 years now, since its early days as a start-up and the immensely impressive desktop / workstation VMware suite of virtualisation products. It was a tool that I’ve spec’ed out on a few occasions for both enterprise server consolidation using the ESX Server range of tools not just for server consolidation but indeed for IT infrastructure consolidation and virtualisation; creating an abstraction between the physical and virtual elements of just about all of the classic 7 layers of the OSI model.

So, now that full disclosure is there: the future of VMware (err, EMC VMware) seems truly in disarray. The technology that they currently dominate (by at least 2 years ahead of all other players) is quickly becoming a commodity. There are so many players in the field now (most notably the boys from Redmond, with Hyper-V being in RTM on Windows Server 2008) that virtualisation has *already*, for all intents and purposes, become a commodity product.

So as Paul Maritz, the newest CEO of VMWorld opened the 5th annual VMWorld conference today with 14,000 participants, the VMW stock tanked another 5%. The stock has followed that eerily familiar path of ultra-hot IPO followed by huge gains to high P/E multiples followed by a quick deflation of shareholder value – over 40% in the last year.

Why?

Some blame EMC acquiring a 90% majority stake in VMware and the subsequent pissing matches of EMC vs. VMWare execs, some blame overly aggressive hiring (VMware was outhiring Google at one point last year)… some blame the competition.

Ultimately, it is that soon virtualisation will be a part of the OS (Microsoft already has this in Windows Server 2008 with hyper-v, and many other open source alternatives exist in 2nd or 3rd generation iterations) or even at the chip level and again: a commodity product that the end user (or sysadmin, or IT architect) will come to rely on much like PPG paint is a commodity for the auto industry.

When that happens, it’s quite possible that opting for an add-on product (such as VMware, ESX Server or ESXi) may be a redundant offering with less and less of a value proposition.

VMware Workstation 6.0.5 build 109488

Mon, 16 Sep 2008 06:24:53 GMT

posted by Appzman

VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent performance and advanced features such as memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier configurations. Essential features such as virtual networking, live snapshots, drag and drop and shared folders, and PXE support make VMware Workstation the most powerful and indispensable tool for enterprise IT developers and system administrators.
With millions of customers and dozens of major product awards over the last six years, VMware Workstation is a proven technology that improves productivity and flexibility. An indispensable tool for software developers and IT professionals worldwide.

VMware Workstation works by enabling multiple operating systems and their applications to run concurrently on a single physical machine. These operating systems and applications are isolated in secure virtual machines that co-exist on a single piece of hardware. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine’s resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, I/O devices, etc. Virtual machines are the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine.

VMware workstation installation steps

Sat, 9 Nov 2008 05:23:33 GMT

posted by anilrgowda

Double click on VMware workstation setup (this setup is around 270MB size) it will take some time to launch and this will start VMware workstation installation.Takes few seconds to load such a large file.The windows installation is very straight forward you will see that it is very simple to install VMware workstation for windows.