Some interesting info copied from VMware’s Competitive News Flash – August 19, 2008
“VMware Participation in SVVP – VMware has signed an agreement to be part of Microsoft SVVP and is actively working on technically validating VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 U2 as a supported hypervisor. VMware should soon be listed on Microsoft’s SVVP website as a participant. [...]

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Carl Eschenbach, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for VMware, announced yesterday (august 20th) that VMware is now part of the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).

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Up until yesterday, if you wanted to be the best boy of the class, you would have to license your virtual Windows and a number of well known applications (SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, and others) for each host the Virtual Machine could possibly land on. So, if you have a ESX cluster of 16 hosts and [...]

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I want to use this post to thank my uncle for designing the new banner on top of my blog. I really like it.
Thanks Al !!!
View more of his work at: http://www.airbrush1.nl/

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My 6.5beta2 version had its license expired and when I wanted to get a new key, I saw that there is a release candidate available:
VMware-workstation-6.5.0-110068.exe   =
VMware Workstation 6.5 Release Candidate
Latest Version: Release Candidate| 8/18/08 | Build 110068
Get it at:  http://www.vmware.com/communities/content/beta/ws65/welcome.html

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