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SOURCE >>VMware: VMTN Blog: Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town.

It´s  only in US and Canada. Too bad.

Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town Today VMware is proud to unveil the VMware Express during its inaugural stop at the 2010 VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, NV.  This state of the art mobile datacenter, demo environment and briefing center has been built to bring VMware solutions directly to our customers across the USA and Canada during the 2010 Virtualization Tour. The VMware Express is sponsored by Cisco, EMC, Dell, MDS, NetApp, Xsigo, ChipPC, Amulet Hotkey and Teradici.

There are 5 demo stations covering both VMware desktop and server virtualization solutions. Customers will have the unique opportunity to get hands on and dig deep into solutions with VMware Experts. There are demos highlighting the following products and solutions:

VMware View

• Best User Experience – Highlighting the power of the PCoIP display protocol to deliver a rich user experience, perfectly adapted for the network connection and end-point device.
• Follow-Me Desktop – Enabling immediate access to desktops, applications and data while ensuring a consistent user experience across sessions and endpoint devices.
• Access Across Boundaries – Providing access to desktops, applications and data anytime, anywhere regardless of network availability.
• Windows 7 Migration – Reducing the costs and complexity associated with desktop and application migration.

VMware vSphere

• The industry’s most reliable platform for datacenter virtualization offering the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services.  Optimize IT services and deliver the highest levels of application service agreements with the lowest total cost per application workload by decoupling your business-critical applications from the underlying hardware for unprecedented flexibility and reliability.

vCenter Server

• Learn about this scalable and extensible platform that forms the foundation for virtualization management with the family of vCenter products including CapacityIQ, AppSpeed, Chargeback and many more focused on providing advanced operational controls.

Customers will not only benefit from being able to see and interact with multiple VMware products in one place but can also take advantage of the conference room where they can have deep dive conversations with VMware solution experts. Leaving the VMware Express, visitors will have an improved understanding of the VMware Desktop partner eco-system, VMware solutions, and how they are positioned to address today’s technical and business requirements.

The VMware Express is letting us reach customers like never before and is ready to roll to industry and partner events as well as customer sites bringing VMware solutions directly to the customer.  Don’t miss your opportunity to catch the VMware Express on the 2010 Virtualization Tour as it crosses the U.S. and Canada coming to a location near you.  Learn more and keep up to date by going to http://www.vmware.com/tour

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VMware Technical Sales Professional Program (VTSP) provides foundational technical knowledge for pre-sales individuals to help them successfully engage in a VMware sales cycle. VTSP is recommended before you obtain Technical Pre-Sales Competency Accreditations.  Source: VMware Partner University

Now I´m a VMware Technical Sales Professional 

Since today 2pm i passed the VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 (VCP4) exam.
Thanks to Simon Long and his blog. The online exams are very very helpful. Thanks

Find more information @ VMware

Source: VMware Education Services

The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for individuals who want to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase the potential for career advancement.

The high standards expected of a VCP means it’s one of the most sought after certifications in the industry. Become a VCP to:

• Demonstrate your VMware software technical expertise to your customers
• Increase customer confidence levels
• Display the VMware Certified Professional logo on your business card or website

The following are the paths to the VCP4 certification:

Anbei ein sehr interessanter Vergleich von VMware View und Citrix XenDesktop. Lesenswert!!

Im Vergleich: VMware View und Citrix XenDesktop: Fachartikel.

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VMware, Updates, OSP

heise online – 14.04.09 – VMware-Update soll Ausbruch aus dem Gastsystem verhindern

VMware hat Sicherheits-Updates veröffentlicht, die eine kritische Lücke in seinen Produkten schließen soll, durch die ein Anwender eines Gastsystems das Wirtssystem unter seine Kontrolle bringen kann. Insbesondere in Bereichen, in denen unbedingt die Einflussnahme des Gasts auf den Host verhindert werden soll, etwa in Malware-Laboren und Serversystemen, stellt die Lücke eine nicht zu unterschätzende Bedrohung dar. Genaue Angaben macht der Hersteller zwar nicht, die Ursache des Problems liegt aber wohl in einem Fehler eines virtuellen Gerätetreibers im Zusammenhang mit der Display-Funktion und dem Framebuffer.

Betroffen sind:

• VMware Workstation <= 6.5.1
• VMware Player <= 2.5.1
• VMware ACE <= 2.5.1
• VMware Server 2.0
• VMware Server <= 1.0.8
• VMware Fusion <= 2.0.3
• VMware ESXi 3.5 ohne Patch ESXe350-200904201-O-SG
• VMware ESX 3.5 ohne Patch ESX350-200904201-SG
• VMware ESX 3.0.3 ohne Patch ESX303-200904403-SG
• VMware ESX 3.0.2 ohne Patch ESX-1008421

Ein Exploit zum Ausnutzen der Lücke ist offenbar bereits für Kunden der Sicherheitsfirma Immunity verfügbar – zumindest zeigt ein Video, wie der Cloudburst-Exploit unter Vista funktioniert.

Via heise Newsticker >>

Vmware, Update, Exploit, Video

VMware Virtualization Cost-Per-Application Calculator: Calculate IT Cost Savings

The VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator compares the cost of virtualizing applications on VMware Infrastructure 3 versus other commodity virtualization offerings, like Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Hyper-V). The calculator provides an accurate and simple methodology to determine and compare the deployment costs of virtualization solutions by 1) including both software and hardware infrastructure costs and 2) accounting for number of applications that a virtualization platform can run on each sever.

By leveraging the VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator, you will see how VMware’s superior virtualization technology enables greater cost savings while at the same time greatly improves reliability and availability across your IT infrastructure.

Calculate your own VMware Cost-Per-Application

Summary:

Based on your inputs, the cost-per-application to virtualize 200 applications using VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Edition is

$2,999 — 9% lower than with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (Hyper-V) and System Center.

VMware, Cost per Application, Calculator, Microsoft, VMware Infrastructure

Erik Sloof von NTPRO.NL hat auf der VMworld Europe 2009 die Session “Managing VMware with PowerShell” aufgenommen und veröffentlicht.

Eine Super Session wie ich finde. Alle 3 Teile anbei.

TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell Part I from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell Part II from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

Virtu-Al » VI Toolkit Quick Reference Guide

Virtu-Al offers a great VI Toolkit Quick Reference Guide on http://www.virtu-al.net

Download the Quick Guide PDF here: http://virtu-al.net/Downloads/VIToolkitQuickReferenceGuide.pdf

Nice Guide.

virtu-al, VI Toolkit, Quick Reference