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VMware has released KB articles outlining the best practices for upgrading to vSphere, installing vSphere and upgrading ESX 3.0 virtual machines to ESX 4.0 hardware.

Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices

Installing ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices

Upgrading an ESX 3.x virtual machine to ESX 4.0

New version of VMware View has been released. It includes following enhancements

• Performance Improvements
• Automated LDAP Data and View Composer Database Backup
• Client Information
• Improved Logging
• Edit Desktop Wizard Navigation
• USB Improvements
• Multimedia Redirection (MMR) for Windows Vista
• Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
• Multi-Protocol Support

For release notes and to download, go here.

Ever wish you could restart a virtual machine or migrate it to another host from the convenience of your mobile phone? With VMware vCenter Mobile Access, you can.

VMware vCenter Mobile Access allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone.

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After a week of studying and reading, I passed by VCP – VCP310 today. Scored 81 !.  I found it helpful to prepare detailed study notes using the VM install and configure guide.

Desktops of the future will need to be able to intelligently deliver data and applications on a wide variety of computing devices, web applications, and computers. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was the first step in this evolution. Over the past three years an entire ecosystem has been built around VDI and just as everyone beginning to realize the power of VDI, VMware is changing the game again.

VMware announced VMware View 3. VDI is now a part of VMware View. The View product portfolio will also include

• VMware View Manager (formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Manager): Enterprise class server which helps rapidly provision virtual desktops and connects users to their personalized desktops.
• VMware View Composer: New Product – Enables storage optimization and scalable management of virtual desktops from a single master image.
• ThinApp: Delivers and deploys applications more efficiently, more securely, and more cost-effectively with agentless application virtualization.

VMware Workstation 6.5.1 has just been released. Go Here to download.

What’s New ?

• Japanese localization — A localized version of Workstation is now available in Japanese for Windows hosts.
• Note: Technical Support services for Workstation are currently delivered in English. Japanese-speaking support engineers are available in a limited capacity during the operating hours of the local support center. For more information, see VMware local language support.
• Smart card support for Linux guests — Smart cards are now experimentally supported with Linux guests.
• Unity mode on Linux guests — Although support for Unity mode on Linux guests is still experimental, repainting of application windows is much improved.
• 3-D graphics — Additional improvements have been made to improve 3-D performance on Windows XP guests. Read the rest of this entry »

VMware announced the plans to bring virtualization and its many proven benefits to mobile phones through the new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). Built on innovative technology of Trango Virtual Processors acquired recently.

VMware MVP is a thin layer of software that is embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications and data from the underlying hardware. It is optimized to run efficiently on low power consuming and memory constrained mobile phones. The MVP currently supports a wide range of real-time and rich operating systems including Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0, Linux 2.6.x, Symbian 9.x, eCos, µITRON NORTi and µC/OS-II.

VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform will help handset vendors reduce development time and get mobile phones to market faster. In addition, end users will benefit by being able to run multiple personalities—for example, one for personal use and one for work use on the same phone.