Important Things 1999

IT1999: VMware will do nothing, because there is more advanced features in VMware development planning, which will spend Xen more time to catch up. Now VMware is the leader, others just keep up and wait for new opportunity to exceed.

The following content is copied from CITRIX website.

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New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free for Everyone
Game Changing Move Goes Well Beyond Free Hypervisors to Accelerate the Adoption of World-Class Virtual Infrastructure for Both Enterprises and Cloud Providers

BOSTON » 2/23/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer™ – the company’s enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform – that will be offered free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment.  While basic hypervisors have been free for years, most have had limited practical use in real world environments.  With this new release, XenServer sets an entirely new standard for free virtualization with the addition of powerful new features like centralized multi-node management, multi-server resource sharing and full live motion.  Dramatically lowering the entry price of virtualization also helps address today’s challenging economic climate by making enterprise-class virtualization far more accessible to businesses of all sizes, regardless of budget.

Now in production in more than 5,000 enterprise datacenters worldwide, XenServer is a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, a comprehensive datacenter-to-desktop system that helps customers transform static datacenters into dynamic “delivery centers.”  XenServer is powered by the same Xen® virtualization engine that runs most every independent cloud today, including the largest single virtualization deployment in the world.  With more than 75 percent of corporate servers worldwide still not virtualized**, today’s announcement helps accelerate the adoption of virtualization by bringing the simplicity, scale and economics of the cloud to enterprise datacenter for the first time ever.

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IT1999: VMware, Anywhere! Do you believe VMware can run anywhere on the planet?

The following vedio is from VMworld Europe 2009.

Usually, I use VPN to update my Outlook. After succeed dial-up, the policy of company will prohibit you to visit lots of websites, such as youtube, google word, and all vicious websites he thinks. How to visit those websites and update Outlook at the same time?

This is my VPN solution:

1. Host OS: Ubuntu Linux
2. Guest OS: Microsoft Windows in VMware Workstation/Server for Linux(If you are VCP of VMware, they will send you a formal Workstation license after passing training class and VCP-310 test).
3.  CISCO VPN and Outlook software is installed in guest OS(Windows).
4. Using Linux to visit website which is prohibitted by the company’s firewall.
5. Using Windows to dial VPN, and setup VPN tunnal, Outlook will using this tunnal to receive and send email.

Since tunnel is setup by Windows, no Ubuntu, so Ubuntu can do anything without considering firewall of company. This will be helpful when you work at home.

Internet access network can be ethernet or wireless, because Windows(Virtual machine) don’t care about it, setup of physical line is job of Ubuntu.

If this article help you, I will be pleasure to hear from you.

I had tested several virtul machine softwares to find one I could use for working in it.

First, I tested VMware Workstation, and gave up for its big body and slowly startup.  I have used it for a long time in Windows and Linux host, so it’s the first one I tested and gave up.

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1. Ubuntu Linux core information

test@test:~$ uname -a
Linux test 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

note: computer name and username is replaced by test

2. Software

Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111317 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.4

Thunderbird:version 2.0.0.17 (20080925), for email in gmail.com

OpenOffice: V2.4.1, openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu-2,Mon Jun 30 10:45:22 UTC 2008

VMware Player: 2.5.0 build-118166, in the package of VMware Workstation, downloaded directly from VMware. Run MS Outlook 2007, MS Project 2003, MS Visio 2007

Filezilla: V3.1.5.1, FTP for website maintenance.

StarDict: V3.0.1, Dictionary for English-Chinese

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