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This is a story about perhaps our youngest customer to date at VMware. The story really doesn’t talk much about Jon’s experience with VMware until the very end but it does show how VMware (and virtualization in general) can be used in pretty much any environment by just about anyone with any kind of budget.

I’d like to wish Jon good luck in his future endeavors in the IT world!

As for Jon, he says he loves testing virtualization software like VMware and wants to obtain “A+ certification” by passing the computer-technician exam by that name developed by trade group CompTIA. “Hopefully, I can do that this summer,” he says.

[From NetworkWorld ]

Tags: VMware

There are still statements coming out from emerging virtualization players that still need some correcting. Given the feedback I’ve gotten from private emails I believe there’s more value in me leaving those corrections to others and instead providing some insight into what I hear from customers on a daily basis. Every day of the week I travel around talking with all sorts of companies. Some of them are long time VMware customers. Some of them are just getting started in virtualization. Some are very large (Fortune 10) and some are very small (a local church with 3 physical servers and 10 PCs). It’s always interesting to hear the questions they ask, how they react to the technologies and solutions we pitch, and the very interesting ideas they come up with for new uses for virtualization.

For the benefits of the customers I will keep them anonymous. Please don’t take that to mean that I’m making this stuff up. I will include the size of the company and what industry they are in and where possible I’ll include where they are basically located. This will help to keep the conversations real and hopefully help others out there gain knowledge from what’s happening with companies like themselves.

I hope this will be a beneficial transition of the blog. Please comment freely and ask questions. I will try to get the customers themselves to blog along with me but I’m not 100% sure if that will be possible due to most company’s policies against public communication.

If you have a story that you would like to share or questions you would like answered please contact me here. I’ll be happy to let you post your own entry.

Tags: VMware

VMware has just released the first beta of the VI Toolkit for VMware. This is a really great set of CLI interfaces for those wanting to tak advantage of Microsoft’s new and powerful Powershell interface. For those not familiar with Powershell you should go and try it out. Creating scripts for everyday tasks in Windows has never been easier. Now with the VI Toolkit creating scripts for everyday tasks inside of VMware has never been easier for the Windows admin. Here’s an example:

VI Toolkit beta 1 is free to download and try out. Just go here.

Tags: Microsoft, powershell, VMware

Virtual PC Guy is quickly becoming one of my favorite bloggers. This time he has done an excellent job at defining some basic terminology for the Microsoft Hyper-V release. A lot of the terminology or at least the definitions hold over to VMware and other virtualization solutions so it’s worth a read. Just go here: Virtual PC Guy’s WebLog : Hyper-V Terminology.

Tags: hyper-v, Microsoft