Uso de VMware Guided Consolidation

In this document we will see one of the VMware products that will help us virtualize our physical environment. VMware currently has two tools to measure what resources it will need when virtualizing a physical environment. The partner tool VMware Capacity Planner and this free and much more basic tool called VMware Guided Consolidation. It is a tool that has three processes: 1.- Search: Search for physical computers on the network to be analyzed. 2.- Analyzes: The selected physical equipment is analyzed and performance data is obtained for each computer. 3.- Consolidate servers: The data obtained is compared with the resources available in the virtual environment and virtualized in the virtual environment with recommendations on ESX hosts.

Using Citrix Branch Repeater (WanScaler Virtualized!)

We start, for those of us who knew the Citrix WANScaler product which is a physical appliance, Citrix has now renamed this product to Citrix Branch Repeater. This product is available in its apliance version as until now and also in an apliance under a Microsoft Windows operating system 2003 o Windows 2008. This product and its family are traffic optimizers, This is, if we have several delegations and there is traffic between them, With these products we can save exaggerated times when sending files or any type of traffic, since Branch Repeater will optimize all traffic that passes through, based on package optimization, by packet frames, caches data structure, and when more packages with the same patterns pass through, that data will not be sent, since he has them searched.

Parallels Desktop 5 for MAC

If a few days ago, we saw the new VMware Fusion 3.0, today we will get up to date with the Parallels Desktop product 5 for MAC. Seemingly, both programs, Direct competition, they seem to have the same functionalities, So we will try to reveal the differences so that we can lean towards one of the two. First of all, is to request a demo license to test it (They are a bit rats, They only give us 14 days), If we like it, then we can buy it ;). To do this,, we must register on the Parallels website

VMware Fusion 3.0 – Installation, Configuration and functionalities.

Now that I've moved into the wonderful world of MAC, I'm in a position to explain a little about the VMware Fusion 3.0. This version of a few weeks of life, You can download it with a trial of 90 dias de la pagina web oficial de vmware. I will try to teach how to: · Download and install the app on your Mac. · Creating a WINDOWS Virtual Machine 7 (New acquisition of the Fusion). · Machine functionalities and visualization.

Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management or VMware DPM

VMware Distributed Power Management is one of the real benefits of having a virtual environment for me, since with this, we will be able to reduce electricity consumption in our data center by a lot. VMware DPM Allows Unnecessary ESX Hosts to Be Powered Off, and when virtual machines are loaded and require more physical servers, these start automatically. All of this would be achieved in a DPM-enabled DRS cluster. The power consumption of a server is 15W when it is in Standby mode and depending on the server and its components it can vary approximately between 300W and 500W when it is booted. Starting from this, we can calculate how much we can save if we opt for VMware and set up a VMware DRS cluster + VMware DPM. Example:

Publishing a shortcut to Citrix XenApp

All of us who use Citrix XenApp to publish apps have come across an app that resists being published, either because it has characters that we can't enter in the path, or why it has a somewhat strange command line, This is for example more than two parameters and this is not supported. To solve this type of incident, We can take advantage of the shortcut left by the manufacturer of the application, since in a shortcut (.lnk) it can have any character or all the parameters that such an application has.

Using VMware FT

Another new feature of VMware vSphere 4 is the ability to use Fault Tolerance or FT. It is the ability to have real high availability, This is, with previous versions of VMware, we had DRS, that if a physical host went down, the virtual machines running on it, they run on another host, Foresaw a restart of the virtual machines. What VMware FT gives us is the possibility that virtual machines do not have to be restarted, and in case of ESX host crash with virtual machines, those that are protected with FT will continue to run on another host without loss of service.

Configuring Physical Appliances for Virtual Machines in VMware

One of the new features of VMware vSphere is the ability to give physical devices from hosts to virtual machines, This ensures that the driver of the virtual operating system, Directly access the physical device in question, The advantages of course is the increased performance of the device, as latencies are reduced. Latest version of VMware Tools required, it should also be taken into account that they can only be assigned 2 per virtual machine and 8 Per Host. And logically such a virtual machine will lose all the advantages of moving to other hosts, since we are assigning a physical device of a specific host. This is called VMDirectPath I/O.

Deploying corporate Outlook signatures automatically

An atypical document, but super interesting if we find ourselves in this case. I had the need to put a corporate fund and a corporate signature for my users' email, it doesn't matter Outlook 2003 than with Outlook 2007 or directly with OWA; my servers are Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. I needed a tool that would integrate with Active Directory and that could automatically put a signature on each user with their name, Surnames, charge, email… without me manually having to do anything, that takes it all from the Active Directory data. And then deploy it automatically with a GPO directive and vúalá! All users with corporate email.