The VMware View Composer uses Linked Clone technology to rapidly create virtual desktops that share virtual disks with a master image, this reduces storage needs and costs by up to 70% while simplifying desktop management.

If you are planning to install VMware View 3 in your environment then you have two choices .First you can use [...]

VMware View 3 is available in available in two editions Enterprise and Premier as bundled solutions. This sounds very confusing to some of the folks interested in purchasing VMware View 3, for some understanding what they  really need for your environment ,but it is not that complicated as what you think.

I will do my [...]

VMware announced their revamped Provisioning and Virtualization product - VMware View 3 availability on December 2, 2008. VMware renamed their existing desktop virtualization product formerly known as VMware desktop infrastructure to VMware View 3.

VMware View 3 is not only a renamed product but newly  added technologies like VMware View Composer, VMware ThinAPP, Offline desktop, Unified [...]

Recently I am hearing lot about Citrix XenServer virtualization so i thought let’s give it a try. On Citrix website 30 days XenServer trial is available for download so I started downloading XenServer 5 Enterprise Edition. I have to fill out a lengthy form before i got to actual download page. Citrix XenServer 5 product [...]

VMware recently changed name of VMware desktop infrastructure to VMware view 3. In fierce competition with Citrix Xendesktop VMware added Thin application virtualization and streaming technology into VMware View 3. VMware View is a reworking of the company’s VMware Desktop Infrastructure product that adds other components to solve the problem of managing virtualized desktop environments, [...]

HP Proliant Virtual console is an easy to use local Graphical user interface (GUI) console for creating and managing virtual machines on HP proliant servers. HP Proliant virtual console uses light weight Citrix Xenserver virtualization technology jointly developed by HP and Cirtix.The HP integrated Citrix XenServer offering put powerful virtulization capabilities right into the [...]

The newer BIOS on IBM x3650 breaks vmotion between server with identical hardware. I received following error message while doing vmotion of guests from ESX host running on x3650 to another IBM x3650.

Warning: Migration from esxhost365×1 to esxhost365×2: Migration will cause the virtual machine’s configuration to be modified, to preserve the CPU feature requirements for [...]

Bridged networking doesn’t work but NAT works fine in VMware workstatrion 6 on Windows Vista ?
On my Windows Vista HP Pavilion desktop i decided to upgrade VMware workstation from version 5.5 to version 6.

I managed to get this part working but soon I noticed my guest virtual machines running RHEL5 and fedora 9 lost [...]

VMware tools are needed on VMware virtual machines so that guest operating systems can run without any performance issues.

I have installed CentOS 5 on VMware workstation 5.5 and here is how i installed VMware Tools in CentOS 5:
1. Install CentOS 5 kernel-devel packages required for VMware Tools installation

1. First make sure you have network access [...]