Archive for May 15th, 2008

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Updates (2008-5-15)

I work for Triangle Computer Services who are an IT services company here in the UK. Triangle are a VMware VAC partner which meant I was able to attend a VMware Partner Solution Track last week.
I must say it was one of the best business partner related days I’ve ever been on and VMware [...]

3.5 KickStart Script Updates (2008-5-15)

Dominic Rivera of vmprofessional.com posted a great article about updates to the kickstart scripts used for unattended installs of ESX. ESX 3.5 brought a few changes and I needed to find out what they were, this article helped me no end.
Thanks also goes to Clay Kohl for working out how to get all the [...]

Mass VMware Tools Updater (2008-5-15)

Every now and again a super sweet little application comes along that makes life so much easier. RVTools, written by Rob de Veij, is a great little tool that can mass upgrade VMware tools running on an ESX hosts controlled by a given VirtualCenter server.
Upgrading VMware Tools every time a significant update to ESX [...]

Thinstall, XenApp… Ah, of course, ThinApp! (2008-5-15)

I stumbled across this interesting article over at the c1tr1xguru blog that talks about VMware’s fairly recent Thinstall acquisition undergoing a name change.
Thinstall has been in beta since VMware purchased Thinstall back in January this year under the guise of the Project North Star beta project.