It's a bit simple, But I have met some clients who had not done it and it is really important, simply that we will have to take it into account when we upgrade our VMware ESX infrastructure, from a 3.x version to the 4.0. We will have to update the VMware Tools on the computers first and then update the Hardware version of the VMs.
GOOD, this may be VMware View's most attractive product, the VMware View Composer, with this product, what we will achieve is to distribute Desktops to users from the same image for everyone. Without having to go around cloning a source VM, or have one full virtual machine per user, This is, the desktops we generate from this will not have a virtual hard drive, If not a link’ to a replica of the original virtual hard drive. With this we will achieve impressive storage savings, For example, if we design that our Desktops we want them to have 20Gb of disk, You don't need to allocate that amount to each VM, if, for example, we are going to distribute 50 Desks: 50MV x 20Gb = 1TB of space for VDI or VMware View environment only, as this does not make much sense, VMware View Composer is used to deploy Desktops from […]
VMware View is the new name of the VDI product (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), This product gives us another insight into the philosophy of virtualization, One more step, Virtualize user workstations, thus obtaining all possible advantages, from the centralization of our systems, with this we will have absolute control over what we administer. Another important advantage that comes to mind, is not having to renew users' equipment, being able to migrate to a Thin Client infrastructure or light equipment.
Well, Well, Well, I finally had the chance to try VMware Site Recovery Manager or VMware SRM, It is a software that will allow us to automate disaster recovery in our virtual environment. It is designed to 'move’ Our Virtual Environment, if we have a virtualized datacenter/data center and we want to be protected against any catastrophe, we will have another datacenter/data center replicated in another building, logically connected with fiber. VMware SRM relies on the replications that the manufacturers of storage arrays give us the possibility of giving a little red Pentagon-type button, and transfer all the execution that is carried out in one DPC to the other, Lifting the VMs on the target data center, with the same configurations and data that we had in the original data center. With this, We'll set up our(s) plan(is) Recovery, and we will have the possibility to test that the configuration is correct and would rise well in the […]
Ok, once we are clear about how VMware ACE works, we have a VMware ACE server mounted and we have an instance of a virtual machine created, ready for distribution, and we have configured your policies, In this document, shows how to create packages and how certain policies we've previously configured would affect you. Being able to later distribute these packages to be able to run the virtual machines of it.
Well, once we have the VMware ACE server installed, We can take advantage of it, even if it is not entirely mandatory to have an ACE server, since we can have our virtual machines (Packages/Instances) generated but without a server control. In this document, We show how simple it is, VMware Workstation ACE Edition installation to create these virtual machines, we generate a VM and then we see the directives other possibilities we have about them. Once everything is ok, we could generate the virtual machine packages to install or distribute them, but that is in the following document:HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.
In this document, we will look at installing the VMware ACE Management Server product. VMware ACE will allow us to have, Distribute virtual machines to our employees in a secure way, since through certain directives or policies we can customize certain properties of the machine. An example to understand it, it is enough to create a VC and if we want a salesperson to take it with the product that we are going to sell inside and we do not want it to be hacked’ We can encrypt your content, capping so that you can't use external drives such as CDs, Hard Drives, net… We can make the virtual machine expire… and all of this can be managed from the VMware ACE Management Server, all this through Virtual Rights Management. Policies can be created from VMware Workstation ACE Edition, as well as virtual machines, This is explained in the following documents: HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1855 and http://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.
WANem will serve us to emulate wide area networks or WAN's 😉 full name is Wide Area Network emulator, is a free product of Sourceforge, we can download it in ISO to install on a computer or in virtual appliance format to mount it on a VMware machine. Thanks to this application we will be able to emulate a WAN to test a product/technology in our laboratories, The good thing is that it can be parameterized quite thoroughly.
I have wanted to publish this document for a long time, where with a simple software called USB over Network (HTTP://www.usb-over-network.com/usb-over-network.html) We can share USB devices over the Ethernet network, This is, We can have on the physical server (in the VirtualCenter or VCB x example) a server with multiple USB adapters or extending it with PCI devices… plug the USB devices needed by the virtual machines into this hardware and share it over the network; in the VMs a client software is installed that will make them connect to this USB server. Apart from this software there are also other solutions, but personally they are not as fast as they are. If we are looking for a hardware solution I would review AnywhereUSB (HTTP://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp).
If we want to convert VMware Server VMs, VMware ESX, Microsoft Virtual Server or Microsoft Virtual PC to Xen Virtual Appliance Format (XVA) we must use the v2xva Virtual Disk Migration Utility application (a V2V app). We go to their official website and download the binary or the sources depending on our OS. (HTTP://tx.downloads.xensource.com/products/v2xva/), be careful that it is only useful to convert virtual machines with Windows from S.O. client and run it from a Windows XP/2003 R2 or Vista as administrator.
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