Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Daily Archives: January 15, 2008
VMWare Buy Thinstall
Posted by on January 15, 2008
Mmmm, interesting. They’re aiming for virtualizing much more than just the OS.. VMWare obviously realise the Hypervizor game is coming to an end where ESX will be a free/commodity release and all the add-ons/management will make the money. This makes an interesting foray into application level virtualization – more anlysis here. Another other [...]
Virtual Center 2.5 as a Virtual Machine
Posted by on January 15, 2008
I’ve not tried this before but it seems to work, my config is as follows – note this is a home/test system so I don’t suppose this is supported for a production platform Single ESX 3.5 host 1 x Windows 2003 VM with Virtual Center 2.5, licence manager, update manager and convertor plug ins, [...]
VMWare Licence Manager – LMTools
Posted by on January 15, 2008
Whilst I’m having a rant, the licence manager for VMWare has to have the worst documentation and weirdest UI ever – VMWare have licenced it from Macrovision and it’s a multi-vendor app but I’ve yet to encounter anyone who has managed to follow the documentation 1st time to install a centralised licence server for [...]
VMWare Convertor is Brain-Dead
Posted by on January 15, 2008
ok, it’s free so I can’t complain too much (well, I can as I would have had to pay for the ESX licence to use it in this way!). I want to import a bunch of my VM Workstation VM’s into an ESX server; why can’t I multi-select, or even browse for these VM [...]
