Found this new VMware training course about How to Deploy and Manage VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS: Deploy and Manage Overview: This three-day course teaches you skills for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud™ on AWS infrastructure. Through a mix of 85% lecture and 15% hands-on labs, you deploy and manage …

Content of the ebook: Companies in all industries are responding to new opportunities to leverage big data and mobility to improve service and increase productivity. For IT teams, the switch to digitally driven business has big implications. Download this book to learn how to meet these cloud-driven challenges, …

That’s an very interesting question which has been researched by a company called 451 RESEARCH.The outcome you will find in the following paper VMware Paper – Can private cloud be cheaper than public cloud. What is your point of view, please post your answer in the comments.

If you run machines in a cloud or in a restriced environment where direct ssh is a security risk it could be a good way forward to use a HTML5 based solution. Guacamole is such an solution. It is a clientless remote access system. It is just required to install Tomcat to run the web application and a proxy deamon. The …

Yesterday VMware has announced the new VMware vSphere 5.1 with multiple cool new features. Feature list from the Whats New VMware 51 Platform Technical Whitepaper.pdf VMware vSphere 5.1 introduces many new features and enhancements that further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. The core platform …

A new version of the open source virtualization software Proxmox VE was released! Change log: New 2.6.32 kernel including OpenVZ support, based on latest Debian Squeeze Kernel Removed KSM (OpenVZ does not support KSM) DRBD tools: update to drbd 8.3.7 New KVM user-space tools (0.12.5) New OpenVZ user-space tools (vzctl …

trying Ubuntu Eucalyptus Cloud on a Virtual Machine (Cloud Controller, Walrus, Storage Controller) and a SUN Blade (Node Controller) Setup done register Node on Cloud Controller download a Virtual Machine image try to start the Virtual Machine –> no success got always the message “pending” got some strange Error …

I’m going to setup a Eucalyptus cloud on my HP ML115 G5. I have installed a additional 160GB S-ATA harddisk. Plan/Idea: install Ubuntu 9.10 with Eucalyptus Node Controller on ML115 install Ubuntu 9.10 in a Virtual Machine on my laptop or MacMini including Eucalyptus (Cloud Controller, Walrus etc) download an install 1 …

Tomorrow (2010-03-04) I will attend a VMware Cloud workshop in Düsseldorf … 🙂