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Colorado VMUG What’s New @ VMware?

Colorado VMUG What’s New @ VMware?. September 17, 2014. Agenda. View 3 Converter 4.0 Fusion 2.0.2 VI Toolkit for Windows1.5 VMware Acquisitions VMworld EMEA – February 24th Watch for more announcements to come!. View 3. View Composer User Data Disk

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Colorado VMUG What’s New @ VMware?

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  1. Colorado VMUGWhat’s New @ VMware? September 17, 2014

  2. Agenda • View 3 • Converter 4.0 • Fusion 2.0.2 • VI Toolkit for Windows1.5 • VMware Acquisitions VMworld EMEA – February 24th Watch for more announcements to come!

  3. View 3 • View Composer • User Data Disk • Check in / check out (offline VDI) • Physical Device Brokering (TS, Blade, Physical) • Other ‘Minor’ enhancements • MMR • Smartcards • Printing

  4. View Composer Enables the creation of “linked clones” based off a “Gold Master Image” (also called redo logs) Leveraging VMware “snapshot” technology that has been in production for over three years. Can dramatically (90%+) reduce the amount of storage consumed 25 MB Clone 25 MB Clone 25 MB Clone 10 GB OS

  5. Highly Managed OS Disk Reduce the provisioning time enabling creation on-the-fly. Roll out updates and patches by creating a new snapshot. User Data Disk Persistent disk to store user data and settings Provide a user with a fully consistent experience while maintain tight controls and compliance. Image Management Creating a seamless user experience by logically joining two virtual disks User Data Disk VMDK 1:

  6. Example: Managing Patches and Updates Users Currently on XP SP1 SP1

  7. Example: Managing Patches and Updates Administrator creates new master image (SP2) SP2

  8. Example: Managing Patches and Updates User data disks are “connected” to the new master at next login or user prompt. SP2

  9. Converter 4.0 • RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu, W2K8 as physical sources • Convert new third-party image formats - Parallels Desktop, Symantec, Acronis, StorageCraft • Hot clone incremental changes during P2V (from physcial) • P2V Workflow Automation • Automatic Source Shutdown / Destination startup • Service shutdown / startup • Specify disk / volume layout in target • Specify VM settings in target (CPU, memory, disk controller)

  10. Fusion 2.0.2 Import Windows VMs from Parallels Desktop 4.0 and Parallels Server for Mac Mount unencrypted .dmg file format as a CD/DVD disk image (like ISO) Mac OS X 10.5.6 as a host operating system. Experimental support for Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 and OS X Server 10.6 (32-bit only)as a VM Ubuntu 8.10 as a VM - includes VMware Tools with prebuilt kernel modules, Easy Install, and Unity Ships with a 12-month complimentary subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009 antivirus software, with localization support Performance improvements when browsing mirrored folders and shared folders in Windows virtual machines. Maintenance release (over 100 bug fixes!)

  11. VI Toolkit for Windows 1.5 Command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell that provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. More than 20 VMs or you deploy VMs or ESX hosts on a regular basis For example, cloning VMs 50 or 100 times OR creating virtual switches across multiple ESX servers. New feature to execute scripts inside the VM guest 32 new cmdlets added

  12. VMware Acquisitions • Trango Processors (November 2008) • VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) • Tungsten Graphics (November 2008) • Linux Graphics Technologies • Blue Lane Technologies (October 2008) • Intrusion Prevention 12 Acquisitions to date!

  13. What’s New @ VMware? • Questions??

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