Year: 2013

Microsoft releases betas of App-V 5.0 SP2 and UE-V 2.0

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Microsoft today announced the release of a beta for its Application Virtualization product App-V version 5.0 service pack 2 and the beta of version 2.0 of its User Environment Management solution UE-V. Once released, both products will be included in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which is available for Microsoft Software Assurance users.

Both version will support the Windows 8.1 client Operating System for which Microsoft announced a Tech Preview during its annual Build Conference.

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Paper: Project VRC: Phase VI – Best practices and impact of Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 in VDI

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Project Virtual Reality Check has released a new paper titled: "Phase VI – Best practices and impact of Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 in VDI". The paper which can be downloaded after registration on the Project VRC website contains 56 pages and covers the impact of deploying and using Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 and 2013 in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environments. This paper is the follow up of the paper: Project Virtual Reality Check phase V, which covered the impact of Anti Virus solutions on VDI environments.

For testing the Login Virtual Session Indexer benchmarking tool was used.

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Release: Citrix XenServer 6.2

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In April this year, Citrix announced that it would transfer the development of the Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. It acquired the development of the Xen hypervisor when Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007. Today Citrix annouced version 6.2 of XenServer which from now on is fully open source, Citrix still provides a paid version of XenServer though, which includes support and maintenance. This version is the follow up of version 6.1 which was released in October last year.

Version 6.2 changes the licensing model from per-server to per-socket licensing, there will only be one package which will be fully featured and includes functionality which used to be found in the premium editions of XenServer. For existing users individual server licenses will be converted to two socket licenses.

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Paper: Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guide

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Microsoft has released a paper titled:"Desktop Hosting Reference Architecture Guide". The paper which contains 19 pages defines a set of architectural blocks for creating a multitenant, hosted Windows desktop and application service. The primary goal is to enable hosting providers to create secure, scalable, and reliable desktop hosting solution offers for small- and medium-sized organizations with up to 1500 users.

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Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for System Center 2012 Operations Manager

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Cristian Edwards and Diego Martinez Rellan both, Premier Fiel Engineers working for Microsoft have released the Hyper-V 2012 Management Pack Extension. The goal of the Management Pack Extensions is to add performance monitoring to the already existing Hyper-V Management Pack provided by Microsoft. The MP has monitors, rules and views. To avoid huge database consumption all rules are disabled by default. You can use these rules for creating your environment baselines.

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Paper: Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Extensible Switch and Cisco N1KV Switch Extension Whitepaper

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Microsoft has released a paper titled:"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Extensible Switch and Cisco N1KV Switch Extension Whitepaper". The paper which contains 16 pages provides an overview of the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Extensible Switch and the Cisco technologies. It provides a general discussion of the key benefits for customers in using these technologies together, including the ease of adding extensions, migrating switches and virtual machines, and working in a unified management environment. It also provides at-a-glance descriptions of common scenarios.

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Paper: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Reference Architecture on Dell PowerEdge VRTX

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Dell has released a paper titled:"Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Reference Architecture on Dell PowerEdge VRTX". The paper which contains 36 pages describes a reference architecture for a remote office infrastructure using a Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis. Dell PowerEdge VRTX is an all-in-one solution, which has server, integrated storage, and networking, as well as an efficient management console, allowing you to easily build branch office infrastructures.

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Release: VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.7.1 with Hyperic 5.7

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Together with the launch of vCenter Log Insight, VMware released vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.7.1 an update that also includes vFabric Hyperic 5.7.

vCenter Operations Manager is a performance, capacity and configuration analytics product that combines several products acquired by VMware in the past, the enhancements in this release focus on integration and can be resumed as follows:

  • Tight Integration with vCenter Log Insight, for faster troubleshooting and enhanced visibility across your IT environment.
  • New reports and dashboards, based on best practices, to help you save time and improve efficiency.
  • Security and infrastructure enhancements, for improved hardening and scalable performance.

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