VOL. 1, NO. 1–APRIL 2012 VMWARE TECHNICAL JOURNAL Editors: Steve Muir, Rita Tavilla and Ben Verghese VMWARE TECHNICAL JOURNAL TECHNICAL VMWARE SPECIAL THANKS TABLE OF CONTENTS Stephen Alan Herrod, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Research & Development 1 Introduction Steve Herrod, CTO Julia Austin Vice President Innovation Programs 2 VisorFS: A Special-purpose File System for Efficient Handling of System Images Olivier Cremel PROGRAM COMMITTEE Banit Agrawal 3 A Software-based Approach to Testing VMware® vSphere® VMkernel Public APIs Jim Chow Lan Xue, Sreevathsa Sathyanarayana, Thorbjoern Donbaek, Ramesh Pallapotu, James Truong, Keith Farkas Sriram Sankaran, Eric Lorimer Steve Muir Javier Soltero 4 Providing Efficient and Seamless Desktop Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Rita Tavilla Lizhu Zhang, Wenlong Shao, Jim Grandy Ben Verghese 5 Comprehensive User Experience Monitoring Lawrence Spracklen, Banit Agrawal, Rishi Bidarkar, Hari Sivaraman Questions and Comments can be sent to
[email protected] 6 StatsFeeder: An Extensible Statistics Collection Framework for Virtualized Environments Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan, Balaji Parimi, Jon Cook 7 VMware Distributed Resource Management: Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned Ajay Gulati, Anne Holler, Minwen Ji, Ganesha Shanmuganathan, Carl Waldspurger, Xiaoyun Zhu 8 Identity, Access Control, and VMware Horizon Will Pugh, Kyle Austin 9 VMworld 2011 Hands-On Labs: Implementation and Workflow Adam Zimman, Clair Roberts, Mornay Van Der Walt VOL. 1, NO. 1 2012 1, NO. VOL. VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 www.vmware.com Copyright © 2012 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. This product is protected by U.S. and international copyright and intellectual property laws.