What's New in vSphere 5.1

VMware Teased at VMworld General Session 2012 in San Francisco the news for vSphere 5.1, we will be able to see it in this official document. But as a summary, it should be noted that the vRAM licensing mode is abandoned by moving to the previous mode by physical CPU. In addition, Enterprise Plus customers will have the ability to access the vCloud Director product at no cost.  

XenClient Enterprise

Citrix recently released its new client hypervisor called XenClient, With this product he wants to solve one of the problems in most organizations, What are users' computers. Until now we have been able to have all the advantages of virtualization in our data centers, We have virtualized our servers and we have already eliminated most of the problems caused by physical equipment, with XenClient you achieve the same and more!

VMware Horizon Application Manager

In this document, we'll look at deploying VMware Horizon Application Manager, which is a web portal where we will have two interfaces, one for management and one for our users, where we can present our ThinApp applications. Relying on a SaaS cloud service (Software as a Service) users will be able to open the ThinApp applications they need in a very simple way. Also with the recent version of VMware ThinApp, we will be able to integrate our packages more easily with the Horizon App Manager portal.

ThinApp Factory

From VMware LABs, we will be able to download ThinApp Factory to automate the process of creating ThinApp packages in our environment. ThinApp Factory is nothing more than a Debian virtual appliance that can be deployed on vSphere 4.1 (or higher) which has a Tomcat-based web interface. We will be able to upload installers and then automatically transform them from different MV templates and directly generate the necessary ThinApp packages, which we will then distribute to our users.

Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V

Clone, Copy or export a virtual machine (VM) can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, and if you have to turn off the VM, it can also cause an interruption in service. But with VeeamZIP you can easily back up a VM to restore it to any host. If you are using VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or a combination of both, Veeam Backup Free Edition fits your environment perfectly. Even if you back up regularly, Veeam Backup Free Edition is a must-have tool for managing your VMs.

I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,

Using Smart Card to authenticate to XenApp 6.5 with Web Interface 5.x

Lately, smart cards have been used more in users' day-to-day lives, or for them to sign documents online, or to be validated on local computers when logging in… in this document we will show the necessary configuration to be able to validate our users in a Citrix environment with them. The cards that we will use in this case are those provided by Izenpe for the electronic signature of our users,