Recovering virtual hard disk space in VMware server

Recovering virtual hard disk space in VMware server

Today we bring you an interesting article that explains how to clean up snapshot files to free disk space in VMware server. This tip may result very useful for those who are looking for a way to recover some virtual hard disk space and are frustrated with how much space the virtual machines demand.

The expert Andrew Kutz offers some ideas for removing a snapshot chain in VMware Server: VMware Server how-to: Clean up snapshot files to free disk space

Why VMware and Citrix will launch Linux VDI

Why VMware and Citrix will launch Linux VDI

Very shortly after Citrix announced its Linux technologies for vApp and virtual desktops in XenDesktop and XenApp, VMware reported that Horizon View will support Linux in 2015. And why these firms have decided to take this step? It is very simple. Companies using Linux and Windows would find a VMware and Citrix unified virtualization tool very useful.

In this way, they would no longer maintain two virtualization platforms, two support teams, two protocols, two clients and two different environments. They could manage everything centrally.

VMware reveals VDI for Linux

VMware reveals VDI for Linux

VMware has announced that they will launch VDI solutions for Linux in China. The technology giant bets on a solution for Linux desktops based on Desktone, their desktop as a service solution.

The option that they would be already contemplating in regards to 2015 would have an edition for companies and institutions.

In this way, the new VMware offering would be already placed in the Asian market by 2020, date when the Chinese Government will no longer use Windows.

For more information, see the following article:

Desktop Linux users beware: the boss thinks you need to be managed

VMworld Europe 2014 Day 1: Interesting VDI news

VMworld Europe 2014 Day 1: Interesting VDI news

VMworld Europe 2014 opened today in Barcelona. In this first day of one of the most outstanding virtualization and cloud computing events, VMware announced new products, program and service that add to the growing list of innovative solutions for end-user computing. Among them is VMware Horizon FLEX that will enable enterprises to centrally provision, manage and secure virtual desktops and applications running locally on Macs and PCs, using policy-based controls to more securely embrace bring your own (BYO) policies.

In addition, a new cloud service for desktop disaster recovery will allow organizations to protect their business and enhance workforce continuity, expansion of cloud hosted services in Europe will open opportunities for customers, and a new storage program will help customers quickly predict and control virtual desktop deployment costs at scale.

Analysis: the new VMware Hyper-Converged solutions

Analysis: the new VMware Hyper-Converged solutions

The UDS Enterprise team analyses in this post the new hyper-converged infrastructures that VMware presented at VMworld 2014, which took place at San Francisco:

With its EVO family, VMware makes a new incursion in the cloud with a solution that scales the resources available for a cloud infrastructure through modules which contain all the resources available (CPU, memory, storage, network…) integrating quickly and efficiently to the management and administration cloud tools, both public and private.

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