Year: 2011

VMware acquires PacketMotion

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VMware has announced that it has acquired PacketMotion, a company focusing on User Activity Management and Network Visibility. PacketMotion which was covered by virtualization.info in May this year when it introduced its PacketSentry Virtual Probe product, which provides a VM-to-VM monitoring solution. Besides that PacketMotion provides solutions which deliver user activity context for network segmentation and data access monitoring.

VMware will integrate the technologies of PacketMotion into its vShield portfolio, where the product will provide visibility in who is accessing data. The team will be integrated into the Cloud infrastructure Business Unit.

Book: VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive

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Duncan Epping, working as a Principal Architect at the VMware Tech Marketing team and Frank Denneman who is Consulting Architect at VMware have published a book titled: VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive.

The book explains the concepts and mechanisms and covers the necessary steps to create a vSphere High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) cluster and create vSphere Storage DRS, a new feature in vSphere 5.

The book also covers HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools, Datastore Clusters and resource allocation settings and provides basic design principles that can be used for designing, implementing or improving VMware infrastructures and fundamental supporting features like (Storage) vMotion, Storage I/O Control and much more.

Release: VMware vSphere 5.0

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After announcing vSphere 5.0 in July this year, VMware now has made vSphere 5.0 which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server generally available for download.

When VMware introduced vSphere they also introduced a new licensing model based on the amount of memory allocated for a virtual machine when it is powered on. This caused a lot of discussion dubbed "vTax" after which VMware decided to update its Licensing and Pricing terms, this still is causing a lot of discussion for certain scenario’s though.

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Release: Citrix Receiver for Windows 3.0 and Mac 11.4

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In May Citrix released a technical preview of the next version of its Receiver software for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac. Today Citrix released version 3.0 making it generally available. Receiver is the application which is installed on clients in order to access hosted applications and desktops. The Receiver will replace the Online Plug-in for Windows which is now embedded in Receiver.

Besides releasing new Receivers, Citrix also released XenClient 2.0, XenDesktop 5.5 and XenApp 6.5.

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