http://www.web2cio.com Server Virtualization - Web2CIO - server virtualization - France Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:54:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Customers continue to cite cost savings as a key driver for adopting open source software, particularly given the current economy – but what else is driving open source?Given current economic conditions, there is considerable interest in open source, with many people wondering whether open source software and licensing can really help ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/2021 Last week VMware announced the availability of Fusion 3.0.1 (build 215242). While it seems just a minor update, it introduces a couple of key improvements.First of all, the Windows virtual machines gain now from 20% to 80% better performance on Mac OS X 10.6 (codename Snow Leopard) for 3D and video ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1970 A few Microsoft customers know that the company is offering a patch management solution for offline virtual machines since July 2008.The tool is called Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) and uses PowerShell, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Despite the ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1968 HP always offered a basic capacity planning tool to its customers that want to use ProLiant servers for virtualization. In November 2005 it released one for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In March 2007 it released one for VMware VI 3.0. Yesterday the company released also one for Microsoft Hyper-V R2. This one is ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1966 Today VMware released version 1.2 (build 41671) of its application performance analyzer AppSpeed, announced in January and released for the first time in July. AppSpeed, acquired from B-Hive in May 2008, is a performance analyzer tool that sniffs the network traffic and learn how the applications inside virtual machines usually perform, so it ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1964 Since the release in May, Cisco updated its virtual switch for VMware virtual infrastructure, the Nexus 1000V, a couple of times. The second update arrived last week, introducing a number of key features. Most of them are security-oriented and very welcome.The most prominent anyway is a JAVA-based GUI installer for the ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1962 After a couple of months in beta, Citrix releasesEssentials 5.5 for Hyper-V just before the holidays. This version of the management platform for the Microsoft hypervisor includes a new technology called StorageLink Site Recovery. This feature allows the Hyper-V administrators to control the replication features that their SAN arrays without using multiple consoles. ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1960 RSA, the EMC security division acquired in June 2006, just published a recommended reading for any VMware customer interested in VDI: A Guide for Deploying and Administering the RSA Solution for VMware View. This is a massive 110-pages paper that describes the architecture and step-by-step implementation of a VMware View 4.0 environment ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1958 Herco van Brug, Senior Consultant at PQR, last week released an interesting paper about the storage implications in VDI environments. The 14-pages paper, titled VDI & Storage: Deep Impact, covers an area of virtual desktop infrastructures that is not investigated enough most time:when implementing a VDI infrastructure certain points need to be ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1956 At the last Microsoft PDC conference, the company’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozziesaid that customers will be able to upload their (Hyper-V) virtual machines inside the soon-to-be-launched cloud computing platform Windows Azure. More clearly, Ozzie said that Microsoft will support the hosting mode offered by Xen-based (like Amazon EC2) and VMware-based ...http://www.web2cio.com/archives/1954