Graphic workload testing with Login VSI
Last week Floris van der Berg, an R&D engineer at Login VSI, blogged about testing graphic workloads with Login VSI. More and more companies want to use graphics software in their virtual environment. But, before you implement it throughout your complete organization, you want to…
Login VSI introduced Login VUM Beta
At VMworld 2014 in San Francisco Login VSI announced a new product, Login VUM. Login VUM is based on Login VSI, but instead of simulating with multiple users to test the capacity of a system, it simulates just one user on a production system. A…
VMware Workspace Portal 2.1 available now
Last week at VMworld, VMware introduced VMware Workspace Suite, a unified platform that delivers enterprise mobility management from AirWatch, application and desktop virtualization from Horizon, and file sync and share with Secure Content Locker. Part of the VMware Workspace Suite is the VMware Workspace Portal….
Horizon (with View) 6.0.1 is downloadable now
Did we outscoop Eric “Scoop” Sloof from NTPro.nl? I hope we did with this: I was just browsing the VMware download site for something Horizon View related when I noticed that Horizon (with View) 6.0.1 is out. The download date on the item is 2014/09/09….
VMworld 2014 General Session Day 4
Last day of VMworld also has a general session. It probably will be an easy going one, since last night was the VMworld party. Follow it here. Checkout the other General Session Live blog day 1 Live blog day 2 Live blog day 4
VMware Fling – Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool
VMware released a new Fling, a latency sensitivity troubleshooting tool. The Latency Sensitivity Troubleshooting Tool provides scripts and examples to troubleshoot configuration and performance problems with the Latency Sensitivity feature in VMware vSphere 5.5. Features Python script that runs on ESXi to check virtual machine…
VMware Fling – BatchV2V
VMware released a new Fling, BatchV2V. It is a command line utility that helps to simplify batch V2V operations with VMware Converter. On first run, BatchV2V outputs a configuration file that can be used multiple times to batch copy one virtual machine to many other targets. For…
VMware Fling – Services Virtual File System
VMware release a new fling, a Service Virtual File System. Building on top of the FUSE API (Linux specific) and the llfuse library, Services Virtual File System (SVFS) aims to provide an easy way for creating a custom file system that integrates seamlessly with the…
VMware Fling – ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter
MAC learning functionality solves performance problems for use cases like nested ESX. This ESX extension adds functionality to ESX to support MAC-learning on vswitch ports. For most ESX use cases, MAC learning is not required as ESX knows exactly which MAC address will be used…
VMworld 2014 General session Live (day 2)
The general session on the second day often shows a lot of demos. Last year we saw a demo of Mirage, where a laptop was dropped on the floor and had its data redistributed to a virtual desktop in seconds. Wonder what they will be…
Launch of VMware NSX 6.1
At VMworld 2014, VMware showed the next version of its network virtualization platform VMware NSX 6.1. At VMworld 2014, VMware, Inc. showcased the continued maturity of the industry’s most complete network virtualization platform for the software-defined data center with the launch of VMware…
VMworld 2014 General session – Live
Today VMworld 2014 kicks off with the VMworld 2014 General session. The theme for this year is “No Limits”. Follow the VMworld 2014 General session live, here, on VMGuru. From the VMworld.com site: The Mobile-Cloud era has arrived—and it’s all about software. Software that empowers…
Follow general sessions live on VMware Now
Monday VMworld really kicks off. If you registered for VMworld you already know this: The first session on Monday and Tuesday are, as usual, general sessions. These sessions give you an insight in where VMware is going with their products and services. the If…
Login VSI 4.1 is out with new workloads and more
Today Login VSI, Inc. announced a new version of Login VSI: Login VSI, Inc. announces Login VSI 4.1, a substantial update to its flagship product. Login VSI is the industry-standard performance validation solution for centralized virtualized desktop and server-based environments. The new release, which has…
Managing Amazon EC2 VMs from the vSphere client
Automation and mulitplatformsupport is getting more and more attention. There was already a multihypervisor management tool from VMware for Hyper-V and VMware. From vCloud Automation Center you can create workloads in AWS, etc. Now Amazon comes with its own tool to bring the worlds of…