Manish’s Scribble Board

Hope most of you might have heard the name of VMware. Its a pioneer company in the field of vistualization concepts research. They have lots of excellent products which can be used to improve the efficiency of your work.

Well getting to the point, on 11th and 12th our Dept of Computer Science had organised a workshop on Server Virtualiation Technology and Latest Trends in Virtualization Industry. It was a two day workshop with hands on experience with their latest software -VMware Server Console which is a free product. The workshop was excellent! Superb! I liked it a lot. Got to learn many things. The thing which i experimented the most was networking over Virtual Machine. This was due to the fact that I didnt want to fiddle with my physical machine to learn about the networks concepts. Over an operating system running over Virtual Machine in a sandbox like approach, experiment as much as you like. I added 3 network cards, 2 hard disks, 4 CD-ROM devices and many more without the dearth of ruining my system.

The workshop fee was just 300 bucks but what we got in return was immense. Over all other things was the knowledge which cannot be bought. We were given suitcases which surely costs a lot, complete breakfast,tea,lunch, supper and dinner for two days.

One more important thing that I want to tell you is that I won the competition which was held at the closing of the worshop. We were given to create a virtual machine with required specifications and use them as given especially using the networking concepts. At the closing ceremony all the dignified people were on the stage to give us some important tips

Lastly the most important and cherished gift which we all got from VMware was VMware Workstation 6.0 license which costs $190. This is my first original software but as usual I didnt have to pay for it.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 2:42 pm and is filed under College, News, Personal, Technical, Thoughts.