25. September 2008 by Tony.

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Adds To VDI Protocol Collection
— VMware is collecting protocols. Last week it made Teradici’s day and announced that it had licensed the software implementation of the Canadian start-up’s PC-over-IP display protocol technology as a key piece of its so-called PC-replacing vClient initiative.

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24. September 2008 by Tony.

 Microsoft was present in a booth on the VMworld show floor, Microsoft claimed it had been largely shut out of presentations and other in-person marketing opportunities at VMworld . So it sent flunkies out to hand out as many as 4,000 cards and US$1 casino chips to VMworld conference attendees touting Microsoft’s virtualization solution and a web site called VMwareCostsWayTooMuch.com

More HERE

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12. August 2008 by Tony.

This problem seems to affect both ESX and ESXi.

The problem is that as soon as the date hits August 12, 2008, all VMs refuse to power on and an error is logged indicating that the product’s license has expired. If VMs are already running, they should be fine; the problem, as I understand, only prevents users from powering on new VMs or performing VMotion operations.

If you are being affected by this bug, then your only real option at this point is to disable NTP (if it is being used) and set your date back a couple of days.

There’s no firm word yet on when a fix will be available from VMware.

Rince, thanks for the heads-up!

Update as of 9AM ET August 12, 2008 Updated ISOs and TARs for Update 2 (let’s call them Update 2 v2) will be available by noon PT tomorrow, August 13. In the meantime, the following workaround should help:

1. Disable NTPd on the ESX hosts.
2. Set the date on the ESX hosts back to some point prior to August 12, 2008. Some people have suggested using the same day and month but a completely different year in the past; this will make it easier to repair ESX log files using search/replace.
3. Set the VM to boot into the BIOS.
4. Boot the VM. In the BIOS, set the date and time properly. This will be incorrect because it gets inherited from the host. This is independent of the time sync functionality in VMware Tools. If you don’t fix this, VMs will boot up with the wrong date and/or time and that will cause additional problems (like Kerberos authentication within Active Directory).
5. After the VM has booted, ensure that time sync within VMware Tools has been disabled. Configure time sync to a reliable source. Active Directory usually handles this for Windows-based systems in a domain.

This workaround is only necessary to power on a VM, resume a suspended VM, or perform a VMotion operation. If all your VMs are currently up and running, just disable DRS/HA.

Hopefully this information will help. I’ll post more information as it becomes available.

According to the VMWare phone support this is being tracked as KB 1006716.

Looks like tomorrow will be a busy day….

From

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/08/11/apparent-datetime-issue-with-update-2/

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10. July 2008 by Tony.

In case you haven’t heard Diane Green (co-founder/CEO) has been let go from VMware. This stroke of genius not only spurred numerous articles on the future and stability of VMware as a whole but also earned VMware the Motley Fools “Worser” stock of the day

Some other interesting reading: good ones:

EMC CEO’s ego has cost investors billions

Comment Whacks Greene when VMware needed her most

By Ashlee Vance • Tuesday 8 Jul 2008 17:39

By firing VMware chief Diane Greene, EMC’s top dog Joe Tucci has sent a message to investors that his personal likes and dislikes come before their broader interests. That’s not exactly what you want to see from an executive who has already done so very little for investors over the past five years. We’ve written more than any …

Greene washed out of VMWare as revs undershoot

MS veteran replaces co-founder

By Joe Fay • Tuesday 8 Jul 2008 14:36

VMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets. VMWare chairman Joe Tucci said in a statement that former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz would take the helm of the firm. Tucci also thanked Greene for her contributions and wished her “every success in the …

VMware’s Woes - Is Microsoft Virtualization to Blame?
Written by: Douglas Brown
Today, VMware announced it has fired (my words, not theirs) one of their founders and the current CEO, Diane Greene. This came as a huge shock to me and most of us in the virtualization industry. In the following article I will explain why I think VMware’s Board let Diane go an why VMware’s stock falling like a MythBusters project to determine the terminal velocity of a 21 billion dollar rock falling from the top of the Empire State Building, and why do I think this is mostly caused by Microsoft.
http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=8115

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