Twitter is a great source of information confirmed and unconfirmed. I just learned from a tweet by vegard_s that VMware has plans to hold VMworld US and VMworld Europe as a back-to-back event. In other words, VMworld Europe will be held in Q4 2010 which will be very close to VMworld US. (more»)
Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described below.
I have experimented with Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) thin provisioning since the beta release of vSphere 4.0 as I don’t have much storage space to spare.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of what I discovered, here’s some background on thin provisioning. Normally, when a 50 GB VMDK is created, it immediately eats up 50 GB of disk space on the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) volume. Since application owners often demand more space than they truly need, there is a lot of expensive storage area network (SAN) disk capacity dedicated to these applications that will never be used. When you thin-provision a VMDK, storage is not allocated to the VMDK unless it is actually used. As long as only 10 GB of the allocated 50 GB disk is used, only 10 GB is claimed.
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About half a year ago, I came across the website of Virtual Computer.com on which I read about a new Client Hypervisor called NxTop. Now the time is here to report about it, since the release is near. The complete product consists of the NxTop Enginer (the hypervisor) and NxTop Center for management. The NxTop Engine is not a desktop hypervisor that is running on top of an OS, like we already know from VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, Virtual PC, etc. but more like VMware ESXi or XenServer on your desktop pc. The desktop boots straight into the hypervisor and just like with ESXi and XenServer, all hardware is now managed by the Hypervisor. (more»)
Last week I was finally ably to buy the whiteboxes I wanted for my homelab. Untill then I had one ESX host at home that hosted my basic environment but because of that I couldn’t try other hypervisors they way I wanted to. So I decided to add two more hosts to my lab. (more»)
When there is a contest for doing stupid but funny things, you will probably find my girlfriend and me joining in. With the Veeam Video Contest it is no different so we shot a nice little video to show what Veeam Backup & Replication can do for you.
Please vote for us at: http://www.veeam.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1050 (You will have to register to vote)
This video is part of the “I love Veeam” contest for VMworld 2009. To see other videos and vote for your favorite one- click the link above. Everyone is welcome to submit, comment and vote on the Veeam forum for a chance to a win trip to VMworld 2009. Go here if you want to participate http://www.veeam.com/go/video/
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