VMware vCenter AppSpeed got End of Availability date

VMware has decided to kill vCenter AppSpeed, no new licenses will be sold after January 3rd, 2012. Support for existing licenses will continue until September 15th, 2012. Official notification of EOA and ESL is available at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2010764 which I will quote briefly:

We want to provide you with an important update about the VMware® [...]

Christmas giveaways for IT experts

Holiday season is upon to us again and Santa is on move already, some companies are feeling generous and giving out free NFR licenses for study and demonstration purposes, perfect for home lab use. Here are some that I have found so far.

DataCore is giving out 365 day NFR license for SANsymphony-V [...]

VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 2 released

VMware has today released a Update 2 for vSphere 4.1. vSphere 4.1 Update 2 includes number of security fixes, number of NIC drivers updates and fix for failing VAAI storage vMotion operations on EMC VMAX array running a specific firmware level.

Release notes for VMware vCenter Server 4.1 Update 2 are available here, [...]

VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4 released

VMware has today released VMware Workstation 8 and Fusion 4 for general availability. One of the cool new additions of Workstation 8 is “Shared VMs” feature which allows you to remotely connect to VMs on other VMware Workstation instances, ESXi hosts or to even vCenter Server!

With Workstation 8 you can migrate VMs from [...]