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Spoon, the application virtualization vendor that launched its platform and application packaging tool in July 2008 as XenoCode, announced on February 19 a new partnership with LANDesk, producer of end-to-end service management, virtualization management and user-oriented IT service management suites.
VMTurbo has released version 3.3. of its virtualization management platform Operations Manager. This version is the follow up of version 3.2. which was released in September last year. VMTurbo Operations Manager provides so called Appliances for Citrix Xen Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare ESXi and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
Veeam yesterday announced the release of a cloud edition of its Backup & Replication product version 6.5. This edition of the software allows customers to make an offsite backup to a public cloud storage provider and will be provided in an Standard Cloud and Enterprise Cloud version. If you have less than 6 sockets, Veaam also provides a Essentials Cloud Edition. The product supports both the VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors.
VMware yesterday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software. Virsto provides virtual storage optimization software for both VMware vSphere but also Microsoft Hyper-V. Virsto claims that it can reduce the cost of storage per desktop as much as 70 procent, by using its storage optimization technology.
Now that VMware is the owner of Virsto, it’s very interesting to see whether it will continue to support the use of its software on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor in the future. It would seem logical to just integrate this software into the vSphere offering, but since also VMware is now focussing on multi hypervisor management this remains to be seen.
Microsoft has made available a new version of the Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster and Companion References for Windows Server 2012. The Component Architecture Poster gives an global overview of Hyper-V functionality in Windows Server 2012 and the Companion References focus on specific features. The posters are in PDF format to be printed in large format.
Last week, Ruben Spruijt announced version 4 of the Application Virtualization Smackdown paper. The paper which contains 61 pages provides unbiased information about application virtualization solutions and is written by Ruben Spruijt, Jurjen van Leeuwen, Rob Beekmans, Sven Huisman, Rory Monaghan and Peter Sterk. For each solution an overview of the available features is created and compared to other solutions in order to provide a comparison.
Since the latest release of Hyper-V (version 3) as part of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft supports adding third party virtual switches. Cisco already announced that its Nexus virtual switch would be supported on Hyper-V as well. Now NEC has announced the release and general availability of the ProgrammableFlow PF1000 virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V.
The ProgrammableFlow Controller is Open SDN software for virtualizing and automating networks, supporting the OpenStack Folsom and OpenFlow protocol. Ideally suited for corporate and service provider data centers, ProgrammableFlow Controller provides virtual L2 and L3 networks with Quality of Service (QoS) and IPv6 support across an OpenFlow enabled switch fabric.
Citrix has release a paper titled:”Citrix XenServer Design: Configuring Multipathing for XenServer“. The paper which contains 66 pages helps readers to understand how to configure multipathing for XenServer. It addresses the following topics: Overview of XenServer Multipathing, Instructions on how to configure a Software Initiator iSCSI, Host Bus Adapter iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocol multipathing and also provides some troubleshooting information.
VMware has released a paper titled: “The CPU Scheduler in VMware vSphere 5.1“. The paper which contains 26 pages provides detailed explanations of ESXi CPU scheduling policies to help vSphere users who want to understand how virtual machines are scheduled.
The CPU scheduler is an essential component of vSphere 5.x. All workloads running in a virtual machine must be scheduled for execution and the CPU scheduler handles this task with policies that maintain fairness, throughput, responsiveness, and scalability of CPU resources.
CiRBA has announced the release of version 7.2 of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. Control Console is one of the components of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution, providing Control and Automation. The CiRBA Control Console is provided for VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and IBM PowerVM running on AIX. CiRBA also provides a Transformation tool which helps modeling server and data center transformations. Both the Control Console and the Transformation tool leverage the CiRBA’s Analytics Engine.