Virtual Wackiness

Comparative Functional Analysis between the top VDI offerings

virtualwackiness — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:54:30 +0000

There are several VDI offerrings out there today. Provision Networks, Leostream, Citrix XenDesktop, VDM2 and VDIworks. As VDI starts building momentum in the Desktop world, we will start seeing these companies compete with each other until some die, and some get bought out. Till the point there is a champion, here are the top 5 players in this field and their feature comparision.

Now you might thing that since this comparative analysis is done by VDIworks, it just might be a little biased, your only chance to really find the truth would be to download them and try them out.

Click the link below to find out for yourself.

VDI Functional Comparison Analysis

VDI Toolkit: Enabling root access on ESX Server

virtualwackiness — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:50:21 +0000

I was looking for a tool that would allow me to enable root level access on a ESX Server that I needed to use. Now you can always use your good ol’ ssh if ESX 3 would allow it. Along comes Veeam RootAccess Wizard that does exactly that. It gives you a simple UI to select your ESX server and enable or disable RootAccess.

It’s available for free and a good tool to have in your “VDI Toolkit”

Follow link to go to their site to try out the free version.

Veeam RootAccess Wizard

Cheers

Want to flavor virtualization today?

virtualwackiness — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:27:15 +0000

One of the first virtualization technologies I used many moons ago was VirtualBox. It runs great on Linux and also has support for Windows and Mac machines. Its the easiest way to create a few VMs on your desktop machine and start using them for whatever you night need to do.

Simply download the correct binaries and RTFM. You should be good to go.

Download and Instructions can be found here. http://www.virtualbox.org/

Experience video can be seen here by someone (silviomnt) who uploaded it to YouTube.

Cheers.

Welcome to my Mayhem!!!

virtualwackiness — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:05:17 +0000

Well, everyone else does it, why should’nt I?