Q. What is vSphere Desktop?

A. vSphere Desktop is a new edition of vSphere for deploying desktop virtualization. It provides the full range of features and functionalities of the vSphere Enterprise+ edition allowing you to achieve scalability, high availability and optimal performance for all of your desktop workloads. Also, vSphere Desktop comes with unlimited vRAM entitlement.
The vSphere Desktop edition is intended for customers who want to purchase only vSphere licenses to deploy desktop virtualization. In addition to the vSphere Desktop edition, VMware also sells a comprehensive end to end desktop and application virtualization solution – VMware View. vSphere Desktop is already included in the View Bundle – the desktop and application virtualization product from VMware. This offer gives customers the option to purchase vSphere Desktop as a standalone vSphere edition outside of the View Bundle.
vSphere Desktop is licensed based on the total number of Powered On Desktop Virtual Machines. It is available in a pack size of 100 desktop VM at a license list price of $6500 USD.
vSphere Desktop can be used only for hosting a VDI environment.

Q. What is my cost saving by using vSphere Desktop for hosting desktop virtualization?

A. vSphere Desktop is the cost effective vSphere SKU for deploying desktop virtualization.
Depending on the consolidation ratio and the memory requirement for desktop VMs, customers can choose between vSphere Desktop or any other vSphere edition for VDI deployment.
Example: Customer deploying 1000 desktops
Assumptions:
Memory/VM =1 GB
vSphere Ent+: List Price: $3495/CPU with vRAM entitlement of 96GB
vSphere Desktop: List Price $65/VM, Unlimited vRAM entitlement for desktop VMs

Q. What are the benefits of vSphere Desktop?

A. vSphere Desktop comes with unlimited vRAM entitlement. Also, it provides the full range of features and functionalities of vSphere Enterprise+, offering reliability, scalability and optimal performance for all your enterprise desktop workloads.
vSphere Desktop is included as part of all VMware View bundle SKUs and comes with unlimited vRAM entitlement.

Q. Which customers are eligible for vSphere Desktop?

A. vSphere Desktop is available to all commercial, academic, and government customers who want to purchase new licenses of vSphere to host desktop virtualization.
Customers who purchase the VMware View bundles get vSphere Desktop with unlimited vRAM entitlement.
Customers who purchased licenses for vSphere 4.x (or previous versions) to host desktop virtualization, and hold current SnS agreements, may upgrade to vSphere 5.0 while retaining their current licensing metric and thus have access to unlimited vRAM entitlement. vSphere Desktop extends only to

Q. How can vSphere Desktop be purchased?

A. Purchases may be made through a VMware authorized reselling partner, OEM partner, via the VMware website or directly with VMware.

Q. When can I purchase vSphere Desktop?

A. vSphere Desktop is available for purchase with the vSphere 5 GA.

Q. Is there a detailed SKU list associated with vSphere Desktop?

A.This offer extends to the following SKUs:
VS5-DT100VM-C
VS5-DT100VM-A
VS5-DT100VM-F

Q: What is included in the vSphere Desktop edition?

A. vSphere Desktop delivers the full range of vSphere 5 Enterprise+ features for desktop workloads.
vSphere 5 Enterprise+ includes features such as High Availability, Data Recovery, vMotion, Virtual Serial Port Connector, Hot Add, vShield Zones, Fault Tolerance, Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multi-pathing, Storage vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Switch, IO controls (Network and Storage), Host Profiles and Auto Deploy, Policy Driven Storage and Storage DRS.

Q. Are there any restrictions with vSphere Desktop?

A. vSphere Desktop can be used only to host a desktop virtualization environment or desktop management and monitoring tools. You can use vSphere Desktop for desktop management and monitoring tools in a VDI environment only.
Desktop licenses covered by this provision, however, may not be managed by the same instance of Virtual Center which is being used to manage non-desktop OS virtual machines.

Q. I have spare vSphere Enterprise+ licenses. Can I use it for desktop virtualization?

A. Yes, customers with spare vSphere licenses from past purchases can use it to host a VDI environment.
Customers who purchased licenses for vSphere 4.x (or previous versions) prior to September 30, 2011 to host desktop virtualization, and hold current SnS agreements, may upgrade to vSphere 5.0 while retaining access to unlimited vRAM entitlement.
Desktop licenses covered by this provision, however, may not be managed by the same instance of Virtual Center which is being used to manage non-desktop OS virtual machines.

Q. I am currently using vSphere Enterprise+ to deploy a third party desktop virtualization solution. Can I continue to do so?

A. Yes. Customers currently using vSphere as backend for a 3rd party VDI deployment can continue to do so.
Customers who purchased licenses for vSphere 4.x (or previous versions) prior to September 30, 2011 to host desktop virtualization, and hold current SnS agreements, may upgrade to vSphere 5.0 while retaining access to unlimited vRAM entitlement.
Desktop licenses covered by this provision, however, may not be managed by the same instance of Virtual Center which is being used to manage non-desktop OS virtual machines.

Q. Can I downgrade to vSphere 4 desktop until my 3rd party vendor supports vSphere 5?

A. Yes, vSphere 5 Desktop can be downgraded to vSphere 4 Desktop and upgraded to vSphere 5 Desktop later.

Q. Do I need a separate vCenter server for my VDI hosts?

A. Yes, like VMware View Deployments on vSphere 4.x you will need a separate vCenter server for your VDI hosts.

Q. Can vSphere Desktop be used to run 3rd party desktop management and infrastructure tools or 3rd party server products for desktops?

A. As per the vSphere 5 EULA, vSphere Desktop standalone can be used for hosting virtual desktop machines or desktop management and monitoring tools. You can use vSphere Desktop for desktop management and monitoring tools in a VDI environment only.

Q. What is the impact to View bundles or View add-on SKUs?

A. There is no change to the price of the View bundles. View Enterprise Add-on and View Premier Add-on SKU prices have increased. We encourage customers to consider View bundles for all their new desktop virtualization deployments. The bundles are designed to be the cost effective solution for large scale desktop deployments.

Q. What Support and Subscription (SnS) is included as part of this offer?

A. VMware requires Basic (12x5) and Production (24x7) Support for vSphere Desktop. In addition, customers can purchase Business Critical Support to complement Production Support. VMware’s Business Critical Support offers access to a dedicated account team who will build and maintain a profile of your installation and provide regular account reviews. VMware’s Professional Services Organization is also available for consultations or to deploy vSphere Desktop in your organization. For more information, call 877-956-0008

Q. Who can I contact if I have questions?

A. Please contact your VMware authorized reselling partner or VMware account representative if you have any questions.

 

phpMyAdmin is a web based front-end GUI programmed in PHP that allows you to control and manage your MySQL Servers. It can be difficult to find a working tutorial so here we actually go over step by step installation of phpMyAdmin on a CentOS 5.x system. This setup should work for any rhel based system.

Setup PHP 5.2 on CentOS 5.x Easily

Setup The Yum Repository

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo

Paste the Below in the New File you Created.

[c5-testing] 
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

Update PHP

yum update php*

Restart Apache

service httpd restart

To make sure you have PHP 5.2 installed do the below.

php -v

File/Directory Basics

ls List files
cp Copy files
mv Rename files
rm Delete files
ln Link files
cd Change directory
pwd Print current directory name
mkdir Create directory
rmdir Delete directory

 

File Viewing

cat View files
less Page through files
head View file beginning
tail View file ending
nl Number lines
od View binary data
xxd View binary data
gv View Postscript/PDF files
xdvi View TeX DVI files

File Creation and Editing

emacs Text editor
vim Text editor
umask Set default file protections
soffice Edit Word/Excel/PowerPoint docs
abiword Edit Word documents
gnumeric Edit Excel documents

File Properties

stat Display file attributes
wc Count bytes/words/lines
du Measure disk usage
file Identify file types
touch Change file timestamps
chown Change file owner
chgrp Change file group
chmod Change file protections
chattr Change advanced file attributes
lsattr List advanced file attributes

File Location

find Locate files
slocate Locate files via index
which Locate commands
whereis Locate standard files

File Text Manipulation

grep Search text for matching lines
cut Extract columns
paste Append columns
tr Translate characters
sort Sort lines
uniq Locate identical lines
tee Copy stdin to a file and to stdout simultaneously

File Compression

gzip Compress files (GNU Zip)
compress Compress files (Unix)
bzip2 Compress files (BZip2)
zip Compress files (Windows Zip)

File Comparison

diff Compare files line by line
comm Compare sorted files
cmp Compare files byte by byte
md5sum Compute checksums

Disks and Filesystems

df Show free disk space
mount Make a disk accessible
fsck Check a disk for errors
sync Flush disk caches

Backups and Remote Storage

mt Control a tape drive
dump Back up a disk
restore Restore a dump
tar Read/write tape archives
cdrecord Burn a CD
rsync Mirror a set of files