Year: 2012

Paper: HP Reference Architecture for Client Virtualization

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HP has released a paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for Client Virtualization. The paper, which contains 43 pages describes how to setup Citrix XenDesktop on top of VMware vSphere 5 running on top of HP Hardware and using HP Storage. The document focuses on leveraging the Citrix Flexcast delivery technology of hosted or streamed desktops.

The reference architecture was tested using Login Virtual Session Indexer(VSE) version 3.5. The server under test was an HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2680 processors, Hyper-Threading was on, BIOS settings were for high performance, and 256 GB RAM. The server was configured with direct-attached storage using the HP Smart Array P721m controller and the HP D2700 Storage enclosure. A P721m was placed in the server, and using the SAS manager within the Onboard Administrator, 6 physicals drives of the D2700 are assigned to the blade server. The ACU (Array Configuration Utility) was used to set the drives in a RAID10 configuration and the drives are configured in the vSphere server as an additional data store to hold the PVS write cache files.

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Citrix announces XenClient 4.5 Technology Preview and releases XenClient XT 3

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Citrix has announced the availability of a Technology Preview for XenClient 4.5, the next version of its Client Hypervisor and the release of XenClient XT 3 a version of XenClient which supports advanced levels of security and isolation. Version 4.5 of XenClient will be the follow-up of version 4.1 which was released in July this year and is expected to be released in December this year, and XenClient XT 3 will be the follow-up of version 2.1 released in October 2011.

The XenClient 4.5 features builds further after the technology integration of the NxTop client hypervisor which Citrix integrated after the acquisition of Virtual Computer in May this year.

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Paper: Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and HP 3PAR best practices and reference architecture

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HP has released a paper titled:"Microsoft SC-VMM 2012 and HP 3PAR best practices and reference architecture". The paper which contains 47 pages describes the use of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to discover and manage HP 3PAR Storage using the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) management protocol.

Microsoft Partners who want their array and SMI-S provider to be supported by VMM, need to complete validation using a test harness and publish a best-practice document that captures the configuration of VMM, storage array, and SMI-S provider. This paper is HPs validation of the solution and also captures best practices, software and hardware configuration, limitations, and known issues and is intended for HP 3PAR customers who want to start using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.

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Release: LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite 9.5

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On October 22, LANDesk, announced the release of version 9.5 of its Management Suite and Security Suite products.

The company, founded 1985 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, producer of end-to-end service management, virtualization management and user-oriented IT service management, improved both suites including new features such as enhanced cross-platform support, innovative software license management and virtualization management.

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Veeam Software results for Q3 2012

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Today, October 23, Veeam released the results about its growth for Q3 2012.

Veeam, provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, announced a total bookings revenue growth of 43 percent in the third quarter of 2012 compared to Q3 2011. At the same time, the company reported to have gained 7.000 new customers and reached a total of 50,000 customers worldwide.

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