Virtual machines, containers, functions. Market knowledge for IT decision makers since 2003
HP has released a paper titled:"HP Client Virtualization SMB Reference Architecture for Windows Server 2012", the paper which contains 12 pages details a reference architecture for a Windows Server 2012 based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on top of a HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 Server.
Testing was done using the Login Virtual Session Indexer (VSI) toolkit, using the medium user workload profile.
Microsoft beginning this month released the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Tool and the Virtual Machine Converter Plug-in for the VMware vSphere Client . Microsoft started the beta of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool in April this year and released the beta of the Plug-in for the vSphere client in August this year.
The MVMC is a so called Solution Accelerator, and it is able to convert VMware-based Virtual Machines to Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and disks.
This is a busy period for virtualization and cloud computing. The OpenStack summit started on October 15 in San Diego California, VMworld Europe just finished a few days ago and another event already started in Barcelona today, October 17, Citrix Synergy.
Citrix started the sessions with a couple of important announcements, the expanded partnership with Cisco into three strategic areas of cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. Besides Citrix also announced an extension of its collaboration with NetApp to deliver an integrated cloud orchestration and storage solution.
Today, October 17, Vyatta announced the general availability of Vyatta Network OS 6.5 with new features such as Hyper-V Support, Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and BGP Multipath among the others.
Furthermore the introduction of Hyper-V support, Vyatta Network OS 6.5 also delivers some improvements to its product:
On October 15, McAfee announced the release of four new Data Center Security Suites.
The subsidiary of Intel Corporation is going to deliver solutions that help secure servers and databases in physical, virtualized and cloud-based data centers.
Virtualization.info has reported numerous of times about Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) in the past. The project lead by Sven Huisman, technical consultant at PQR, Jeroen van de Kamp, Enterprise Architect and CTO at Login Consultants and Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer at PQR already delivered a couple ofpapers providing valuable insight into Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Server Based Computing (SBC) deployment scenario’s.
Now, Project VRC has launched a survey because they want to provide more insight about the non-technical issues related to VDI and SBC deployments.
The survey which should be able to give some insight into these non-technical issues can be found here: https://nl.surveymonkey.com/s/ProjectVRCsurvey2012
Microsoft today announced that it has made available downloadable VHD’s for evaluating the Beta of System Center 2012 SP1, which it announced in September this year.
Since Service Pack 1 will provide support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, it’s much awaited by companies who want to start rolling out and manage Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 using the System Center Suite. Microsoft expects to release Service Pack 1 in early 2013.
At the VMworld in Barcelona 2012, Veeam announced the release of Veeam Backup and Replication 6.5, the backup product for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Veeam, developer of virtual infrastructure management and data protection products, just few days ago announced support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 will be available in Q4 2012.
HyTrust is going to announce this week HyTrust Appliance 3.0
Californian company HyTrust delivers control and compliance for virtualization and cloud infrastructure, the HyTrust Appliance is a VMware vSphere-compatible virtual appliance and it can be deployed on the same hypervisor that it is actively protecting.