Friday October 17, 2008 Tech Talk on the xVM Portfolio - VDI, Virtual Box, xVM Server, xVM Ops Center
As I've mentioned before,
I organize regular internal tech-talks at Sun's Grenoble Engineering
Center, on a wide range of themes from blogging to virtualization, from
collaboration and work-from-home tools to sun-labs projects.
This week it was my turn to animate a tech-talk again, and the theme was on and around the xVM Portfolio.
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( Oct 17 2008, 04:03:43 PM CEST ) Permalink
Monday October 13, 2008 Hiking a stone's throw from home - a weekend away from work
We're exceptionally lucky to live in the French alps, with a view from the house that we never get bored of:
The only thing with having such a beautiful view is that it's just calling out to be climbed...but the "Grand Colon" requires a little courage before heading off, with some 2400m altitude, and over 1000m vertical climb (4000 feet) from the nearest access point.
I first hiked up there a few years ago with a friend... last year, I took my wife, stopping off en-route overnight in a mountain refuge for a weekend away without the kids (fabulous).
Yesterday, we went up with the entire family, myself, wife and kids (aged 9, 6 and 6), plus a group of friends. I'm especially proud of the kids!
It's pretty spectacular up there, and this kind of thing makes for a great work / life balance!
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Wednesday October 01, 2008 The new user interface of xVM Server 1.0 and xVM Ops Center 2.0
I'm really impressed and proud of the work that the UI team has been doing on xVM for our upcoming release. The best UI of any management product I've ever worked on (and I've worked on quite a few).
In my last blog entry I showed a little teaser of the xVM Ops Center 2.0 user interface, that screenshot had been captured by Ben during one of our integration testing sessions.
xVM Server, the hypervisor stack that turns your x86 box into a host for virtual machines, comes with the same embedded web-server offering your browser a full graphical user interface. Not only is this GUI available inside your browser, wherever you are, on whatever device you're on, but it's also available directly on the xVM Server's console itself. No need for any tools, no need even for another machine with a browser if you just want local access!
Wouldn't you rather view this on your screen... |
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... and wouldn't you rather be using your choice of browser
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...rather than have to install a fat client app that only runs on Windows?
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Over on the xVM Central blog, there is some more of xVM's UI to see.
( Oct 01 2008, 02:28:42 AM CEST ) Permalink