Warren Ponder Sr. Product Manager Remote Display Experience presented the session: “View: Remote Desktop Experience”.
This session was all about display performance , thus protocols. For some time now VMware and Teradici are working together on PCoIP, a protocol that Teradici developed and uses in it’s hardware solutions.
VMware is developing a software version of the PCoIP protocol which gives a boost to the end user experience. In de keynote last Wednesday there was a demo of it that I captured for you to see.
Some questions that were addressed in the breakout session.
Q. Will VOIP be supported in the software version?
A. VOIP will be supported, not in the initial release though but in future releases,the hardware version already supports VOIP as we speak.
Q. Will Linux be supported by the protocol?
A. Linux clients will also be supported in PCoIP same as win32 and win64. Multimedia redirection will also be part of the solution, as is bidirectional USB support.
Q. How does PCoIP adresses traversing firewalls?
A. So what about PCoIP addressing traversing firewalls, the protocol itself supports AES encryption which is turned on by default. An administrator can turn it on and off by the way. The hardware implementation uses AES same as the software implementation, but also supports IPsec. Looking at VPN and firewall aspects, for the software implementation of PCoIP VPN clients are supported. VMware is also looking at ssl-vpn connections and to integrate this more. Is it able to use only 443, Teradici hardware uses different ports and they have be opened accordingly.
Q. What about specific ports is opening 443 enough or are there other ports used?
A. From the firewall to the backend you have to have the different firewall ports open, from the client to the firewall that’s not necesary.
Q. Regarding the software client, will that be the standard view client or will that be a different add-on?
A. The software will be integrated with the view client. In order to easy distribute protocol updates, an update mechanism will come available. This mechanism will behave like in the VMware tools, in order to update just the protocol instead of deploying a full view client.
Here’s a video impression of the main party at VMworld Europe 2009 created with the Flip thanks to VMware!
I was working at some blog-posts when I stumbled upon Declan Waters, PR Manager for the EMEA region at Trend Micro. We were talking about the VMsafe API’s that were announced last year, and we found that there was little information about VMsafe present this year apart from the vShield Zones introduced by VMware.
I wondered if I could do a short interview to see what Trend Micro is at with VMsafe. Following up Declan introduced me to Harish Sunderam Agastya, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Trend Micro.
The result is here:
Brian Madden & Jeroen
It’s no secret that Brain Madden is the person to talk to about Terminal Services and Citrix. Now it was time for his unbiased and uncensored take on VDI.
He compared 10-year old sheets of Citrix with current VMware marketing as they just described SBC in general and weren’t VDI exclusive (Management, access, security and performance). Making his point with worldwide knowledge of Terminal Services, 80 million users and even cost efficiency leaving VDI with only some future features that would challenge TS.
Another aspect of this presentation was the hype-driven vPeople basically meaning young and trendy (marihuana smoking) kids and the stiff business people representing TS giving the attendees a good laugh while making his points.
Leaving not much of the VDI arguments at the end he predicted the next few years of technology would change dramatically making them both competitive and providing opportunities for competing terminal based solutions.
Just before the keynote I had the pleasure to talk to Sam Svitenko, Business Development Manager Cloud Computing and Ron Renwick, Director of Product Marketing from Platform Computing (www.platform.com).
Platform Computing is a company started as a High Performance Computing (HPC)Company delivering products for quite some years. Platform also has a virtualization portfolio and brings the experience they have in HPC to the Virtualization and Cloud space.
Being said that the Cloud is becoming more and more popular I think Platform is definitely a company to watch as they have a lot of experience in Cloud-like environments even before it was called “cloud”.
In today’s Keynote at VMworld Jerry Chen showed the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). In this demo he showed a Nokia N800 mobile phone with a touch screen with MVP installed running two different mobile platforms on it. One used for the company and one for personal use. The business mobile OS is based on Windows CE, and the Personal mobile OS is running on Google Android.
Here is the impression:
Very impressive! I think this is going to be market standard very soon. I know so many people carrying two or even more phones around and who love to consolidate to just one.
Here are some demo’s of new functionalities I captured during the Keynote:
vCenter Linked Mode Search:
Vmworld Host Profiles Demo:
This morning I spoke to several bloggers and community experts. They received an email from VMware this morning with their vExpert award.
The persons I am sure of that have received the vExpert Award are:
- Ruben Spruijt
- Mike Laverick
- Eric Sloof
- Arne Fokkema
- Victor van den Berg
I’m sure the list is longer than this, but this is only to give you an impression.
Update: I am vExpert too! Unfortunately mail problems delayed the news a bit.
If you have been that lucky to attend VMworld Europe in Cannes this year, Duncan Epping posted an item about the VMTN-Expert panel where you can get a free T-Shirt!
Now I want to see a full packed booth tomorrow at 13:00 – the Community Booth(next to the Dell Booth). So as a incentive we will give a free t-shirt to everyone that comes and drops a question to the Experts or even starts a discussion!
If you’re scared to asks question just head over and vote for the best of the VMworld show poll, we will also be giving away shirts for that during the day. Just come and visit the booth during the day or during the VMTN Experts Session / Meet and Greet… who doesn’t want to have a cool looking VMworld Community shirt? I know I want one so I might just ask the famous Tom Howarth a question!
To all you bloggers out there, please re-post. And just so you know these guys are on the panel:
Gabrie van Zanten, – Owner of gabesvirtualworld
Jason Boche, – VMTN Moderator, Minneapolis Area VMUG president, and owner of Boche.net
Alan Renouf, – Owner of Virtu-Al, Powershell Enthusiast
Steve Beaver, – Tripwire, VMTN Moderator, and contributor to Virtual Black Hole
Scott Herold, – Quest, owner of VMGuru.com and accomplished Author
Thomas Bryant, – VizionCore and VMTN Moderator
Wil van Antwerpen, – Owner of vi-toolkit.com
Eric Sloof, – VMware trainer and owner of ntpro.nl
Tom Howarth, – VMTN Moderator and owner of PlanetVM
Duncan Epping, – VMware Senior Consultant and owner of Yellow-Bricks
This session AP08 was hosted by Michel Bond and Holger Temme.
Why clients run XenApp virtual:
- Consolidation
- 32-bit and x64 bit XenApp VM’s can coexist
no pressure to move to x64bit
- better management flexibility & isolation
templates/drs etc.
- common advantages that come with the VMware platform
- High availability and DR
Some caveats:
- Get your expectations right do not compare apples and oranges
- Always do your own tests, real life workloads vary drastically so do your test yourself with your specific application set in order to determine the maximum users you can run on a virtual XenApp. Do not rely only on benchmarks you will find out on the internet because most of them are based just office as an app and infrastructures that are not current anymore (old version of VI3 i.e).
- P2V works fine for a lot of workloads but is a NOGO for Terminal Services and Citrix XenApp. So using XenApp in a virtual environment means doing a fresh install.
- Pitfall: insufficient testing, also keep in mind hardware assist possibilities
- Do not mix other types of workloads (AD/file-print) with XenApp because it can seriously degrade your performance (number of users per host), create a dedicated resource pool and use dedicated hosts to run your XenApp workloads
Conclusion: Running XenApp virtual can really be cost-saving, with running it virtual you can even with 32-bit versions of XenApp fully use all hardware capabilities even beyond the bare-metal memory maximum of 4GB by using multiple smaller XenApp VM’s on a Single Hardware box.
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