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Virtualization Forums in Boston & San Diego

November 14, 2008 Leave a Comment

VMware is holding a pair of Virtualization Forums, one day mini-conference designed to bring together virtualization experts and clients from within a region of the United States. There are two Forums happening in December:

December 3, 2008: San Diego
December 11, 2008: Boston

A customer of mine attending one last year in Atlanta and indicated it was an excellent networking and learning event. If you happen to be in one of these two cities, look into attending the Virtualization Forum.

VMware Converter Public Beta Announced

November 14, 2008 Leave a Comment

VMware recently announced the Public Beta of VMware Converter 4.0. Converter 4.0 will support physical to virtual (p2v) conversion of Linux and W2k8 system. For more information and to sign up for the Beta, see the full announcment on the VMware Converter Community Forum.

VMware Lab Manager 3.0.1 Released

November 7, 2008 Leave a Comment

Another release today from VMware: Lab Manager 3.0.1 was recenty released. While this is a maintenance release, some of the items inlcuded in this release are:

Support for running Lab Manager on English (US, UK, AUS), French, German, Italian, and Japanese versions of Microsoft Windows 2003
Optimization for higher scalability and lower response time
Support for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 Update 3
Ability to transfer ownership of Lab Manager objects such as network templates, virtual machine templates, configurations, and media files between different organizations.

Full details about this release can be found in the Release Notes.

(Unfortunately, this announcement comes a day late for my customer who was upgrading his LM2.x installation to 3.0 last night… :-O ).