Hello Planet V12n – again :)

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It seems that my blog fell off Planet V12n a month or two ago.  I just want to let all the Planet readers know that during my hiatus I posted some new resources to vReference that I thought everyone might be interested in:

A new vReference card – View & ThinApp

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I have finished condensing, consolidating, compacting, compressing and thoroughly concentrating the rest of the Desktop Notes I made available last month.  Here is a first release for my new vReference card.

This card is created for VMware’s enterprise level Desktop Virtualization products, namely VMware View 4.0 and VMware ThinApp 4.5.  Thankfully there are is still a small amount of space left on the card, so if you feel that there are some area’s which I haven’t done enough justice to, then please let me know.  This whole area is a rapidly evolving one, so I can imagine new versions and products filling any white space before I know it.

A lot of work has gone into this card over the last few months, so I hope its helpful.  Its been interesting learning about these two products, but I’m always happy to learn more.  So if you have any suggestions for improving this resource for everyone, then let us know in the comments.

Go and grab it.

Updated vSphere and esxtop PDFs

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Just to let you all know I’ve updated both my vSphere 4 card and my esxtop precis to versions 2.2 and 1.2 respectively.  I realized that both were long overdue an update.

The vSphere 4 card just has a few small corrections that the readers have spotted and some updated links. Its been about 6 months since I uploaded the current version, so I can’t remember all changes, but there nothing too drastic.

The esxtop precis has had the slightly more noticeable changes.  I’ve updated a couple of the thresholds to keep it in line with Duncan’s sage advice.  I also added in the great tip of the keypad numbers 2, 4, 6 & 8 (see the card for what they do), as these are both useful and nice and easy to remember (so I might actually use them).

So no big changes, but if your about to print yourself off a new card, make sure its one of these new shiny ones 🙂

Free Desktop Virtualization (ThinApp/View) Notes now available

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Here are some new notes for VMware’s desktop virtualization products, both ThinApp 4.5 and View 4.0.  It’s in the same style as my popular vSphere 4 notes, and you can download them now.

If like me, you know your way around the more mainstream VMware datacenter products, but need to find out what all this Desktop kerfuffle is about, then hopefully this will get you up to speed in double-quick time. All this free goodness comes just squeezed into around 20 pages of terse, non-nonsense facts.

Grab them here.

I’m in the process of creating a special desktop reference card, covering just View and ThinApp, and wanted to share my notes along the way. I’ve already completed the View sections and have just started condensing, consolidating, compacting, compressing and thoroughly concentrating the ThinApp section. So remember these notes are really just a byproduct, but hopefully some of you might find them useful. The real prize is coming soon so keep checking back frequently.

The notes cover the following official VMware documents:

VMware View 4.0.0

  • View Architecture Planning Guide
  • View Upgrade Guide
  • View Manager Administration Guide
  • Getting Started with VMware View
  • Command-Line Tool for View Manager
  • Extending Virtual Machine Deletion with Scripts
  • View Manager 4.0.1 Release Notes

VMware ThinApp 4.5

  • ThinApp User’s Guide
  • ThinApp Virtual Registry

Grab the Desktop notes here.