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Archives for August, 2010


VMware View 4.5: Ready for the Large Enterprise

by Chris Wolf  |  August 31, 2010  |  17 Comments

Today at VMworld North America, VMware announced the availability of VMware View 4.5. The View 4.5 Premier release represents a significant milestone as it places VMware in very select company with Citrix as the only two vendors that offer enterprise-ready server-hosted virtual desktop (SHVD) solutions. For us to consider View 4.5 enterprise-ready, it had to [...]

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My VMworld North America Sessions

by Chris Wolf  |  August 11, 2010  |  2 Comments

I have three sessions at this year’s VMworld North America conference and thought I would post them here in the event you’re interested in attending one of them. Each session will run two times, and the session descriptions, times, and locations are listed below. I hope to see you at the conference. The in-depth discussions [...]

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VM Templates Should Include at Least 2 Virtual Hard Disks

by Chris Wolf  |  August 5, 2010  |  14 Comments

Today I was working with a client on their next generation data center architecture. They are building a highly virtualized data center with the goal of offering cloud IaaS to other departments within the organization. While talking about VM templates we discussed a favorite topic of mine – virtual hard disk structure. For several years, [...]

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