“In the trenches” product management - Jo De Baer’s blog

Nice success story about how Pernod Ricard Pacific uses PlateSpin Orchestrate.

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Looks like I’m in. See you all in Salt Lake City and Amsterdam.

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As of right now, an evaluation version of PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 can be downloaded via download.novell.com. This includes a trial license key. You can use the search engine, or click here.

New in this release :

Provisioning Adapters:

• Usability improvements for connecting to Virtual Center

• Improved automatic configuration of SLES VM hosts

VM management UI (PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client)

• New UI themes

• Improved list navigation through a “locator pop-up” and a filter field

• Improved tooltips related to VM life cycle operations

• Improved event logging (content and format)

• Visibility into history of VM life cycle operations

• Improved VM remote connection setup

• Optional manual VM placement in addition to default automated placement

• Support for PXE-based installation of virtual machines

PlateSpin Orchestrate Server

• Audit database now includes support for historical tracking of VM life cycle operations

• New events based on RRD-based averaging of monitored metrics

New platform support

• PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 agents are supported on SLES 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)

• PlateSpin Orchestrate 2.0.2 VM Client and Development Client are supported on SLED 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)

• PlateSpin Orchestrate can manage the life cycle of SLES 11 virtual machines (32-bit and 64-bit)

• Metrics gathering form 32-bit and 64-bit Windows virtual machines (disk I/O, network I/O, CPU, and RAM)

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As a colleague of mine (Mike R.) just pointed out : “you can know the content of a release, or the release date, but not both”.

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Introduction to PlateSpin Orchestrate
PlateSpin Orchestrate installation and configuration
Introduction to PlateSpin Orchestrate VM Client
Building VMs with the PlateSpin VM Client
Performing general VM related management tasks
Working with VM repositories, templates and clones
Advanced infrastructure debugging with the PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client

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Full story here. Enjoy.

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Latest product presentation is here, trial version can be downloaded here and here is the documentation. Enjoy …

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Well I think the most important thing to say about “ski 2009″ is that it will actually happen as it looks now, as opposed to, say, “ski 2008″, “ski 2007″, and I can go on for a while here. Apartment, ski resort parking reservation, SUV winter servicing, snow chains, all “check”.

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As I had to create this jpeg anyway I thought I’d post it here too … can be found in the product presentation which is regularly made available to PlateSpin Orchestrate partners.

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As announced on www.platespin.com, “Novell ZENworks Virtual Machine Management” will from now on be called “PlateSpin Orchestrate”, starting with the upcoming new release. Our partners were notified and already could download an updated product overview slide deck, but I’m also posting it in my “Public presentations” page, and you can quickly grab it here too.

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