DeltaV Virtual Studio 3.3 has recently been released and
I thought I’d brag about some of the new usability features that are included.
In addition to showing the last operation executed on a
VM, we include what’s currently happening along with a progress bar so you’ll
know things are moving along. We’ve also
enhanced the information displayed in the lower right-hand corner for things
like the hosts and VM’s.
We’ve enhanced the VM creation experience by allowing
more adjustments during the initial setup.
In the previous version of DVS, you had to spin up a VM, then power it
down to change things like allocated RAM and disk size. In the 3.3 version, extra tabs have been added
to the VM creation dialog box, allowing modifications to memory, processors,
disk space and the enabling of Replication – during the initial creation:
When enabling Replication, the number of restores can now
be adjusted, which previously required you to go into Hyper-V. Increasing the number of restore points
provides additional protection in case of machine corruption. When changing the restore point number, DVS
displays the additional hard drive space in the storage array that will be
consumed. For performance adjustments,
the replication frequency can be slowed down – this might be acceptable for
non-persistent nodes like operator stations.
Another powerful, timesaving feature is the VM Builder
selection:
With the VM Builder tool, you can create multiple VM’s at
the same time. Like the VM Creation
dialog, you select the DevData.cfg from your ProPlus that contains all the
workstations and servers from your configuration:
A series of dialogs guide you through the setup of any or
all the configured workstations and servers:
When you click the final Finish button, DVS will go out
and spin up all the selected VMs – time for a couple of cups of coffee or even
lunch.
DVS 3.3 is available at no charge to existing DVS 2.3.1
customers with Guardian Support and can be downloaded from the Guardian
website.
