PREORDER: VMWARE VSPHERE DESIGN

Scott Lowe and others took the wraps off another book project today with the announcement of pre-order for the new book: VMWARE VSPHERE DESIGN.

"To our knowledge, it is the only book focused on designing VMware vSphere implementations. It is written for engineers and architects who plan, install, maintain and optimize vSphere solutions."

So what are your waiting for...get your orders in now!

VCP 4 CLOTHING STORE ONLINE

NTPRO.NIL is reporting their is a new VPC 4 Clothing Store online. Read more here:

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1679-New-VCP4-Store-Merchandise-for-VMware-Certified-Professionals.html

NEW FREE VSPHERE TOOL

I learned about this on twitter from Kendrick Coleman. New Free tool VMVision Manager.

SERVER 2008 R2 and PROPER VIDEO DRIVER

We recently started seeing some issues with Server 2008 R2 virtual machines locking up when using the MMC for a long period of time. These were running on a vSphere 4.1 hardware version 7 virtual machines.

It appears the fix is changing the Video Driver to the VMWARE SVGA 3D WDDM driver and adjusting video RAM for the virtual machines to 32MB. See these links for more info:

http://snipurl.com/1trne1

http://snipurl.com/1trngv

VMWARE VIEW LIMITS AND PLANNING

I found this awesome planning advise for properly planning out a VMware View 4.5 environment, complete with a very nice calculator.

http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=794

http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1519

Calculator: http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1330

THINAPP TV is ONLINE

ThinApp TV in now online with some great videos to learn from showing off Thinapp!

http://vimeo.com/channels/thinapp