VMware rumored to acquire RTO Software!

by Patrick Redknap on February 2, 2010

rto_logoToday a rumor has been bouncing around the web that VMware might be on the move to aquire RTO Software.

The first solid piece of info came from Virtualization.info early this morning.

In September 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software to offer its Virtual Profiles product. Virtual Profiles is a mandatory piece to manage the user data, customization of applications, and the system environment in a virtual desktop.

Virtualization.info pointed out that “The most interesting part of this deal is that RTO Software has the same agreement with Symantec, which competes in the VDI space with VMware”.

Brian Madden reported that Symantec has suddenly stopped selling Virtual Profiles, and that every trace of the product disappeared from the corporate website. He suggested that this is a sign that VMware acquired RTO Software. The standard answer he received from the company PR department is that the company doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation.

I guess only time will tell!

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Video: Cisco Unified Communication Manager 7.0

by Patrick Redknap on February 1, 2010

These are Jasjeet Singh’s installation video of Cisco Unified Communication Manager 7.0 on VMware 1.0.1 parts 1-3.

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Backup 2.0+

January 29, 2010

Several articles over the last few days have appeared discussing the notion that Vizioncore is “Paving The Way For Image-Based Backups To Replace File-Based Backup Methodology”.

The articles refer to “Vizioncore being at the forefront of major change in the industry by advancing the adoption of Backup 2.0 solutions”
Now from what their documentation says it seems [...]

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VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere

January 27, 2010

Scott Drummonds has discovered a problem where the ESX Perfmon counters he added to vSphere 4.0 virtual machines were not disappearing in Windows virtual machines as of vSphere 4.0 U1.

It turns out this problem stems from an issue with mofcomp. The workaround is to manually uninstall and then reinstall VMware Tools. It also appears [...]

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vSphere Session Monitor 1.0

January 26, 2010

We first heard about this from ‘Virtualization Guru’ Eric Sloof’s blog.
Nicholas Weaver (architect/geek in Eric’s words) over at http://nickapedia.com/ has created a tool which keeps you informed of who is on your vCenter server.

It’s a preety nifty little tool too! Check it out! – vSphere Session Monitor 1.0

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Video: VMware Workstation 7 Record Replay Debugging feature

January 22, 2010

VMware Workstation 7 Record Replay Debugging feature does exactly what its name implies, it allows you to record the execution of your virtual machine, and then play it back later.
VMware has significantly enhanced this feature based on feedback received from the developer community. VMware Workstations Replay Debugging helps developers save a tremendous amount of time [...]

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ESXi 4.0 Security

January 21, 2010

We try to keep an eye on all the community blogs here at Virtualization-Spotlight. Today our eye was caught by the vinternals blog’s article ESXi 4.0 Security.

“Stu” makes a good point that there is still no vSphere 4 Security Hardening Guide available currently, and the only published security guidance we have from VMware is the [...]

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VMware introduce vSphere training course – “Skills for Operators”

January 20, 2010

VMware education services are planning to release the Skills for Operators training course around the middle of February.  This hands-on training course explores configuration and management of VMware vSphere virtual machines.
Upon completion of this course, you should have the skills necessary to work effectively with VMware virtual machines. The course is based on VMware ESX [...]

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Eric Sloof Interviews Gabrie van Zanten about two new upcoming SRAs

January 19, 2010

Eric Sloof of ‘NTPro.nl‘ interviewed Gabrie van Zanten of ‘Gabes Virtual World‘ this week about two new upcoming Storage Replication Adapters.
Site recovery Manager communicates with storage arrays trough storage replication adapters (or SRAs). Storage replication adapters translate generic commands generated by SRM for tasks such as discovering arrays in the datacenter determining which LUNs are [...]

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VMware GO overview

January 15, 2010

With the recent announcement of VMware GO, VMware has finally entered the Hosted Cloud/Web Application market to provide services to both small and medium businesses, allowing them to more easily manage their ESXi implementations.
This move could possible be an attempt by VMware to begin experimenting with ways of creating Hybrid Cloud environments.
How would this work [...]

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