VMware View Client for Android makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your Android with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

VMware View for Android – Tech Preview

This is an interesting article on How to create an infiniband network with ESX – ESXI 4.x servers. For more information see

create an infiniband network with ESX – ESXI 4.x servers 

The hugely popular Performance Troubleshooting for VMware vSphere 4 guide is now updated for vSphere 4.1 . This document provides step-by-step approach for troubleshooting most common performance problems in vSphere-based virtual environments. The steps discussed in the document use performance data and charts readily available in the vSphere Client and esxtop to aid the troubleshooting flows. Each performance troubleshooting flow has two
parts:

1. How to identify the problem using specific performance counters.
2. Possible causes of the problem and solutions to solve it.

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For more information, see

1. Troubleshooting Performance Related Problems in vSphere 4.1 Environments (pdf)
2. Performance & VMmark (Vmware Community)

The goal of Cloud Foundry is to hide complexity from developers and make it easy to deploy and run applications anywhere. This is the same marketing speak that folks toting the cloud have pitched for years, but VMware wants to make it even more simple. Instead of worrying about instances or how to support a database, you just write a few lines of code, and Cloud Foundry makes it all happen for you…………

For more information, see

1. VMware Launches Open-Source Cloud
2. Cloud Foundry

Vmware View Client for iPAD is finally here…….

VMware View Client for iPad makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your iPad with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

This is a continuation of Configuring Vmware ESX Networking via CLI (Part I). This 2nd Part dealt with Port Group. The material of this blog is taken from

1. Configuring networking from the ESX service console command line (kb.vmware.com)
2. New User’s Guide to Configuring VMware ESX Networking via CLI (blog.scottlowe.org)

Portgroup Configurations

1. What is vmware Port Group? For more inforamtion,  you may want to see the Vmware Virtual Networking Concepts (pdf)

2. Creating a Port Group

# esxcfg-vswitch -A <Port Group Name> <vSwitch Name>

3. To set the VLAN ID for a Port Group

# esxcfg-vswitch -v <VLAN ID> -p <Port Group Name> <vSwitch Name>

For example,

# esxcfg-vswitch -v 0 -p “Service Console” vSwitch0

where 0 is the VLAN ID

4. Deleting a Port Group

# esxcfg-vswitch -D <Port Group Name> <vSwitch Name>