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We have coded a fix to the session timeout issue that will allow sessions to remain active >24 hours, and we are testing it today, and will deploy it as soon as we can. I'll update here when I have an ETA for deploying the fix. Currently sessions time out after 60 minutes, and if your session times out while you are composing a post, you will likely lose your post. Until the fix is deployed, please copy your posts to a clipboard before you submit them.
One of the most thrilling SAP events in EMEA is happening in Berlin. VMware invites you to meet our SAP alliance team in booth ER 2.13 at SAPPHIRE in Berlin from May 19-21. You can find us at the SAP ERP area in Hall 3, floor 2. Learn how you can use VMware technology as the infrastructure foundation for efficient business process management and continuous innovation based on SAP NetWeaver. Visit the VMware and HP booth at SAPPHIRE to participate in a drawing of exciting prices. You do not have to be present to win the price. VMware has forged a strong, collaborative relationship with SAP AG to maximize the benefits for our joint customers. VMware is one of a very limited number of SAP Global Technology Partners, and VMware ESX is the only virtualization platform supported by SAP across both Windows and Linux for all environments, including production. VMware is also a charter member of the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Community, which unites leading virtualization vendors to develop new strategies for business-process driven virtualization. We look forward to talking with you at SAPPHIRE. At the VMware booth you'll see demos, customer case studies, product information and receive a CD containing the complete set of VMware SAP white papers and more. Matthias
The May 9 - 11 infrastructure upgrade completed successfully. There is one outstanding issue and one usability improvement. Outstanding Issue: Prior to the upgrade, login was required only once every 30 days as long as you didn't delete your VMware cookies. Following the upgrade, session timeout is 60 minutes, meaning you need to log in again after 60 minutes. We are working to restore the original functionality, but in the meantime it will be necessary to log in more frequently. Usability Improvement: On your profile screen, e.g. http://communities.vmware.com/people/<your_username>, you can now update your VMware Store profile as well as your VMware Communities profile. Prior to the upgrade, you could only update your VMware Communities profile. If you click "Edit Communities Profile" in the Actions box, you can edit the fields that show up in your VMware Communities profile, including your name, the email where watches are sent, and your signature. If you click "Edit VMware profile / Change password" in the Actions box, you can edit your VMware Store profile. This is new, and should make it easier to maintain your VMware Store profile. Also new: you may now change the email address in your VMware Store profile. One thing to note: The email address in your Communities profile and the email address in your VMware Store profiles can be changed independently of each other:
Maintenance on VMware Communities (and other VMware Store functions) is now complete. VMware Communities participants are now able to log in, log out, and update their profiles.
We have recently been very busy with SAP activities and events, including SAP Virtualization Week in Palo Alto, SAP Sapphire Orlando, the completed VMware Site Recovery Manager project with SAP and NetApp at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, and the announcement of the SAP Enterprise Virtualization Community. We're not done yet: SAP Sapphire Berlin happens in less than two weeks. All will be discussed shortly when we get a few minutes to write about them. But first, I want to announce the VMware SAP Solutions Partner Community. We created this growing community of VMware consulting/SI partners specifically to address the needs of customers who want to virtualize their SAP environments. All partners have demonstrated their SAP and VMware expertise, and they are well-qualified to support our customers. We will work with them to extend best practices, develop new use cases, and build new solutions for virtualized SAP landscapes. The partners are also encouraged to collaborate with each other. In short, it's an outstanding group of diverse, qualified, and enthusiastic partners and VMware is very excited to work with them! If your organization needs a service partner/integrator to assist you in virtualizing your SAP landscape, this is a great place to start. And if you are a service partner, consider joining the community! Joachim
With the release of the 2U, 2-socket R805 and the 4U, 4-socket R905 (both AMD based servers) and the already existing 4U, 4-socket R900 (Intel based server) now is a really good time to be looking for a server to run your virtualization farm on. All three are excellent choices and could be the right server. To determine which one depends on lots of things. I'm looking for reasons to choose one over the other (let me know your thoughts). We will be putting together some information to help people decide here on TechCenter and hosting some chat sessions to enable discussion. Specifically, I ran across this article from The Register that I think has a pretty good take on the R805/R905 Virtualization announcement from a couple of days ago. They point out all of the server options as well as the virtualizaiton services that were a part of the announcement on Tues. Todd
Folks, This is Steve from VMware CoDevelopment Engineering. I would like to share with you the client side Java APIs and some samples I have developed recently. This API package:
I leave for vacation for a few days and all kinds of cool stuff is announced (although I did make it into the office a couple of times while on the beach). What I think is a really great server for virtualization is now on the website where you can configure and order it. The new PowerEdge r805 is not just a new version of the 2950 or 2970. It was designed with virtualization in mind and has the features to back it up. It has 16 memory DIMM slots, 4 embedded NICs, plus four more PCI slots, and is still only 2U. I put together a couple of configurations on the website and the price for an r805 system with two top bin quad-core processors and 64 GB of RAM seems like a great deal to me. I guess that I'm still thinking about some of the old PowerEdge 8450 8-way servers that I tested with back in the day with a list price of over 50K, which was a good deal at the time. Todd
Ok I’m definitely not John Galt, but since this is my first post, I think it appropriate to give you a little background about myself. After all, why read and/or care about anything I have to say? I was introduced to VMware like so many others, through Workstation back in 2002. At the time I worked for a 2.8 billion dollar company and had just completed a major Microsoft SMS 2.0 implementation. I was working with a consultant that had it installed on his laptop PC and used it to demo the product developed by his employer.
We are considering implementing VI3 VM's in our DMZ and are considering using our corporate SAN environment. Management is concerned about security of the SAN. Up to this point our security team would not allow our SAN fabric to extend into the DMZ connected servers. Is it unusual for organizations to connect DMZ servers to their corporate SAN infrastucture? Is there a real risk? Thanks everyone.
I'm pretty excited to be putting a new production cluster online next week. I'm putting up a 4 node production cluster with the following hardware:
Marathon Technologies, que ya ofrecía una de las primeras soluciones de alta disponibilidad para XenServer en máquinas virtuales, ahora ha logrado integrar en mayor medida la solución de HA con el Hypervisor de Citrix.
When using sql server 2005 express you get no performance data, for the past week, month or more. This depends on the lack of sql server agent in express edition.
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Here are the links and articles for the past week: