Matt Liebowitz, working as Advisory Architect at EMC and VMware vExpert and Alex Fontana who is Solutions Architect at VMware have published a book titled: Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere.
According to Eric Sloof who presented the book on ntpro, the authors give tips and tricks, furthermore for each Microsoft application, they provide sample configurations and specify how new features impact virtualization, it also covers:
Year: 2013
Howie Xu, former VP of Engineering at Big Switch Networks joins Cisco
Cisco System has a new Senior director: Howie Xu. According to his LinkedIn profile Xu, who was VP of Engineering at Big Switch Networks for the last two years, left officially the company on July 19 to start working for Cisco a couple of weeks later, managing all of Cisco’s Cloud Networking Service Group engineering team & execution.
Howie Xu is an expert in the networking industry, having worked at VMware for about nine years leading the networking R&D team, at the time Xu already collaborated with Cisco on Nexus 1000V. He is also credited with co-inventing VMware’s Virtual Switch, after his experience at VMware Xu joined Big Switch Networks in 2011.
Release: vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1b
At the beginning of August VMware has released Update 1b of vCenter Server 5.1.
This release aims to fix a number of bugs, among which the most relevant is related to the cancellation of virtual machines using the Datastore Browser:
Release: vCenter Configuration Manager 5.7
vCenter Operations Manager is the product, offered by VMware in the vCenter Operations Management Suite, which delivers performance, capacity and configuration analytics for dynamic hybrid cloud infrastructures and business critical applications.
vCenter Configuration Manager automates configuration management by analyzing and correlating data across the monitored IT infrastructure (virtual and physical servers, workstations and desktop) identifying, for each tracked resource, the normal behavior of every metric (which implies a dynamic adjustment of thresholds) and then automatically recognize an anomaly. Capacity Management is provided to enable users to users to analyze, forecast, and plan the capacity needs of their virtual datacenter environment. Configuration and Compliance Management is provided by collecting, fixing, provisioning and managing configurations.
VMware announces Q2 2013 earnings
On July 23 VMware announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2013.
Total revenue for the Q2 was $1.24 billion, with an increase of 11% compared to Q2 2012. Looking at the financials we can see how the annual 2013 revenue should be be of about $5.12 to 5.26 billion, and license revenues are expected to be $2.21 to 2.29 billion. Excluding revenues attributable to GoPivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, this represents growth rates of 15% to 18% for total revenues and 8% to 12% for license revenues.
Paper: Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide
Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide". The paper which contains 16 pages provides design guidelines for customers who want to implement the Virtual Fibre Channel feature within Hyper-V VMs. Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides the guest operating system with unmediated access to a SAN by using a standard World Wide Name (WWN) associated with a virtual machine.
Release: NComputing vSpace Server 7.1 – Updated
NComputing last week announced the release of version 7.1 of its Remote Desktop Services (RDS) solution vSpace Server part of the vSpace Virtualization platform offering both hardware and software for RDS solutions. It can offer multi user applications on top of Windows Server, Windows MultiPoint Server and Ubuntu Linux and single user applications on top of Windows client. Version 7.1 is the follow up of version 7 which was released in March this year.
VMware sells Zimbra to Telligent
VMware yesterday announced that it will sell its Zimbra assets to Telligent, a company focusing on enterprise social software. Zimbra, which VMware acquired from Yahoo beginning 2010 is an online/offline messaging and collaboration suite.
With this sale VMware has abandoned the products which aren’t part of their new strategy anymore, which includes the software-defined data center, hybrid cloud and end-user computing. Other assets not part of the strategy have been transferred to the Pivotal Initiative, which was announced in December last year.
Oracle stops development of Sun Ray products
Oracle has announced that it will stop with the development of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Sun Ray software and hardware products. The software became part of the Oracle product line when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009. Main reason for stopping development is that Oracle want to invest in the development of both Oracle Secure Global Desktop and Oracle VM VirtualBox Software.
In an effort to more tightly align Oracle’s future desktop virtualization portfolio investments with Oracle Corporation’s overall core business strategy, we have ended new feature development for Oracle Sun Ray Software (SRS), Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software (VDI), Oracle Virtual Desktop Client (OVDC) Software, and Oracle Sun Ray Client hardware (3, 3i, and 3 Plus).