Alliances & Partnership Advising
VMware Studio 2.0 Beta was made publicly available over the weekend. Studio 2.0 helps configure, build, deploy and customize vApps And Virtual Appliances within a vSphere environment. Follow the link for full details.
(For some reason, it’s the name has been pre-pended with a lower-case v…yet? 🙂 )
Occasionally you come across a blog posting which requires a more permanent awareness campaign behind it than posting a link to it on Twitter or FriendFeed. (Funny how the only way to do that is to post a link to it on your blog…)
Check out Jeff Browning’s attempt to explain (from a “recovering lawyer’s” point of view) What the Oracle / VMware support statement really means…and why.
As virtualization continues to expand across the datacenter, Oracle applications are a high priority target for virtualization. This topic comes up from all my customers and is something that I have been involved in discussing mulitple times with each one. Jeff’s detailed analysis of Oracle’s support statement does a great job of blowing the chaff away.
I just wrapped up a Breakfast ‘N Learn at one of my customers on the topic of Storage Best Practices for VMware Environments. A storage agnostic view of things to keep in mind on the storage side of your VMware deployments.
Here is a quick hit of the server storage best practices that should be of value to all VMware users:
For more details check out the VMware Resources for Virtual Storage portal.