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VMware - vmSight webcast

Posted by wponder VMware Feb 20, 2008


vmSight the leader in virtual network intelligence will be hosting a webcast detailing how VMware VDI and vmSight can be used to gain stronger and sustainable HIPPA and PCI compliance. The webcast will be hosted Feburary 26th and there is still time to register.

Executives, IT auditors and systems administrators responsible for validating security and compliance in virtual environments or others who are considering the move to a virtual environment and want to understand how they can benefit while addressing regulatory compliance concerns should consider taking the time to listen in.

For more information and registration please visit the following URL

Achieve Stronger and Sustainable HIPAA and PCI Compliance with Virtual Desktops

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Currently I am traveling across Germany meeting with customers and partners. This morning, just after I finalized preparation for a presentation. I decided to hop over to dabcc.com for a quick peak at what is going on in the SBC and virtualization community.

The first article that caught my eye was an article from a system provider in South Africa, OAS. The OAS was offering a test drive of a VMware VDI virtual desktop, connecting through VDM 2 and a XenDesktop based desktop.

To set the stage here. When I am traveling I use a MAC. If I need to access my VMware VDI desktop I can remotely connect with it using Safari. I also have a local Windows based virtual machine I can use with Fusion if needed. Using my MAC from the meeting room, here in Germany I fired up Safari and browsed over to the the OAS site for XenDesktop access.

At first it appears XenDesktop could not detect what client I needed.
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When the client detection failed I decided to try the manual client detection.
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The client detection failed so I decided to go ahead and download it. It took about five minutes to download the MACICA_OSX.DMG.zip file. Once it competed, I decided to install it. At this point I got a little confused as the installer said it was installing the ICA client for Presentation Server. Am I connecting to Presentation Server or XenDesktop? I figured I would find out once the client was installed an I get the chance to connect with a desktop. Unfortunately, that did not happen though. For some reason the ICA client could not be installed?
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After this, I decided to compare the out of box experience for VDM 2 delivering a desktop. First I put the VDM 2 URL in Safari. I was asked to accept a certificate from OAS as I have never been to their site before. After accepting the certificate I was presented with a login.
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After entering the login info and launching the tunnel I was presented with a list of desktops I was entitled to use.
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After selecting my desktop and connecting my desktop session was successfully connected.
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In all fairness, MAC support for VDM 2 is only experimental. I am unsure and have not checked if XenDestkop is planning to support MAC clients once its released. It may have been unfair of me to expect XenDesktop to work from my MAC?

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Last week at VMware we reached a major milestone in moving the next generation of desktop computing forward with the release of VDM 2. First I would like to thank the 1000’s of beta participants who took the time and downloaded, tested and provided enormous amounts of feedback. It’s all the tremendous feedback that will help us continue to deliver innovative features that help you execute and deliver your next desktop architecture.

Second I would like to thank the engineering teams that invested countless hours and sleepless nights to deliver a high quality product building a solid foundation that will shape the future of virtual desktop management. In 2005 VMware started executing on the VMware VDI vision. Since some of the biggest names in server based computing have completely changed their business models, rebranded their products, adjusted their message and spent 100’s of millions of dollars in effort to adopt the vision of VMware VDI.

VDM 2 was not a rebranding exercise of slapping a VMware VDM 2 logo on some legacy product. It was a completely new product built from the Propero technology acquired in 2007 with the vision of virtual desktop management in mind. Rather than taking the high road and fastest time to market a conscious decision was made to build a solid foundation from which the future of virtual desktop management could safely rest.


Some of the enterprise class features offered in VDM 2 included:

  • Support for multiple VirtualCenter instances
  • Support for existing individual virtual machines
  • Support for provisioning virtual desktops using persistent and non-persistent pools
  • Support for XP and Vista virtual desktops
  • Support for XPe, XP, Vista, 2000 Pro, Linux and integrated thin client devices
  • Advanced power control policies for automating suspending, powering off, powering on, destroying and resuming virtual desktops
  • Support for live migration of running desktops using VMware VMotion
  • Support for granular resource allocation using VMware DRS
  • Support for higher availability of virtual desktops using VMware HA

These are just a few features available in this release of VDM 2. In addition we have added a new community forum for VDM 2 that can be found here

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We also have started to release several deployment guides and tech notes to help with your virtual desktop deployments. If there are other topics you would like to hear about please feel free to send me your requests.

Using the Wyse V10L and S10 Thin Clients with VDM
Introduction to Virtual Desktop Manager
Windows XP Deployment Guide
VMware VDM 2 Load Balancing Guide
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vdm20_intro.pdf
Thanks again to all the VMware VDI customers for your support.

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