Within a week, there are 2 major accquires been done by VMware. By accquire RTO is not surprise to most of us as VMware trying to move forward with the complete cloud solution provider. But this morning, I got the sms from my buddy in VMware inform me about the accquire for Ionix and I am surprised.  After I read through the news this morning, here is the finidng. VMware did not 100% purchase Ionix from it parents company but some of it. Well, to me VMware and Ionix are both owned by EMC. Will there be any different whether is owned by VMware or EMC on this? We will have to keep an eye on that.

I have couple of deals dealing with Ionix before, I believe the issue here is not the owner of the products, and they should focus to improve the knowledge of the sales and technical guy to brief the partner more. No doubt, Ionix is 1 of the greatest product out of the market, but in order to success, the education pieces to partner and users are important.

I will say is an ambitious move for VMware this week towards the cloud computing. Remember Ionix suppose to release the automation and management pieces for vblock, I am not sure whether it will still continue or they are some changes going to happen soon.

You can refer to the official link here for more information.

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There are video on the web which show you how to setup the Nexus 1000V in 8 mins video, which is greatly reliable. You can refer to the link here to find out more. Further that, you will no longer require to register and redeem the license as tough as previously does. Once you setup the Nexus 1000V, it will automatically come with the license applied which valid for 60 days, and you can enjoy your sweet time to wait for the final license key and re-apply it. Since the Nexus 1000V come with the http web base, I am not sure why Cisco had not consider to allow us to apply the license key file via the web rather than the messy process of transferring the license file into the nexus 1000v with certain CLI command. To simplify this, will definitely help the administrator to speed up the work.

There are 3 option of installing the VEM, which via VCLI, ESX console or VMware update manager. My setup today are without internet connection, therefore I went for both vcli and SSH protocol and I found that the easiest way are using vCLI. You can download the vCLI from here which is free via VMware official website. A lot of users are not adopting to Nexus 1000V today, but if you ask whether there are a need for it, my answer will be yes. For the users who had been virtualized their environment for years may realized the challenges been faced on the normal vswitch or dvswitch, and Nexus 1000V will greatly address all the challenges we have on the virtual environment.

We also tested the active standby architecture for Nexus 1000V in the VMware environment and it greatly fail over as it promised. Not too much hassle require to configure this, just as simple as 10 mins job follow the video here. Personally I will be glad to see more improvement from Cisco to further enhance and simplify the installation process and configuration which will greatly bring more value to the customer for planning and implementation moving forward.

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You can have a full view about the VCN alliance details from here.

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This is a good news for most of the ERP users especially when you have SAP running in your production environment.

(see SAP Note 1173954 for details):
1. Since Jan 13, 2009, Oracle supports SAP production landscapes on Oracle DB single instance (no RAC) virtualized with VMware ESX 3.5 and higher
2. Minimum OS on MSFT is Windows Server 2008; SLES and RHEL are also supported
3. Minimum Oracle release is Oracle 10.2.0.4
4. Oracle will support VMware in the context of Oracle Metalink Note 249212.1

Read the full details from the official announcement.

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To be honest, application virtualization is not new to myself, but Thinapp had been a new thing in my mind since I do not have time previously to try this out. After my buddy vmkoko convince myself to have a try, finally I manage to spend 2 hours to try this products out and finally I get to know what is VMware Thinapp. Thinapp is the application virtualization which deliver the application virtualization into the virtual desktop and physical desktop environment. From the starting, it gave me the feeling as Altiris SVS, but there are definitely different if we compare both products. Thinapp allow users to deliver application with or without installation which simplified the application delivery to be operating system independent.

Anyway, I cut my story short, I suggest everyone of you who are looking into VMware View for desktop virtualization, should seriously take a look of Thinapp and others application virtualization solution in the market.

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• GUI setup following software install
• Layer 3 control between VSM and VEMs
• Virtual Service Domains for classifying and separating traffic for network services
• iSCSI Multipath—supporting multipath feature introduced in vSphere 4
• XML API for developing client apps for managing/monitoring the Nexus 1000V
• DHCP Snooping for validating DHCP messages and filtering invalid responses
• Dynamic ARP Inspection for validating ARP requests and responses
• IP Source Guard for filtering traffic on interfaces to valid MAC and IP addresses
• MAC Pinning for assigning Ethernet port members to particular port channel subgroup (where upstream switches do not support port channels)
• Static Pinning

There are more new features in the latest release and please read more from here.

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