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Today was announced that long distance vmotion is now officially supported by VMware up to a distance of 200 kilometers. A team-up from Cisco, VMware and EMC did some tests, proving the posiblities. Long distance vmotion is basically the vmotioning between two remote datacenters, enabling follow the sun, follow the moon, or evacuating a datacenter anticipating on a soon-to-be-disaster (“the tornado is coming”).

Of course some limitations apply.  Things like maximum latency of 5ms round trip and minimum bandwidth of 622 Mbits/sec apply, but still! Long distance vmotion is a fact, and I guess will soon be accepted as an enterprise solution just like normal vmotion has.

Yesterday on VMworld 2009 I went to a breakout session on VMware ThinApp. To my surprise we saw a demo on a new ThinApp feature. This feature is basically, that you can automagically rebuild your ThinApps! In the demo five Windows XP VMs were used, and all “setup.exe” files resides on some share. When the repacker was kicked off, the VMs were snapshotted. Then, ThinApp got kicked off inside each VM. After the ThinApps were regenerated, they were automagically copied off the VM, after which the snapshot was reverted.  This process repeated itself on all available VMs until all ThinApps were rebuilt.

Magical!

I am not (yet?) the kind of blogger to throw on everything I see around me on my blog just because it is “new”; I think blogging should be more about things you have tested or measured.

Yet today on VMworld 2009 I make an exception: I just got my VMware VCP4 certification. Yeah!