Citrix has released version 5.1 of its client hypervisor XenClient. XenClient consists of two technologies, the XenClient, which is a type-1 client hypervisor running on selected hardware and the XenClient Enterprise Synchronizer, which allows XenClients to download centrally managed virtual desktops and run the locally. Syncrhronzier provides backup and restore, security policies and more. The update contains fixes for both the XenClient Engine and the XenClient Synchronizer.
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Release: Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0
In October 2012 Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Virtual Machine Converter tool (MVMC) allowing the conversion of VMware based virtual machines (VM’s) to Hyper-V based VM’s and virtual hard disks (VHDs). Now Microsoft has released version 2.0 of the MVMC, which also allows customers to convert VMware VMs toward VM’s running inside Microsoft Azure.
Paper: What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5 Networking
VMware vSpere 5.5 was released in September 2013 and introduced a couple of improvements to the networking capabilities of the vSphere platform.
These enhancements could be resumed as follows:
- More hashing algorithms for link aggregation
- More link aggregation groups
- Traffic-filtering support
- Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) marking support
- Improved host-level packet-capture tool
- Improved single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support
- 40GB network adapter support
VMware announces Horizon 6, adding Server Based Computing as a solution
VMware today announced the release of version 6 of its end user computing suite: Horizon.
Starting with this version VMware not only provides a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution based on View, but now also provides a Server Based Computing (SBC) solution leveraging Remote Desktop Services (RDS) from Microsoft. With the addition of SBC, VMware is now capable of publishing applications, where the application runs on a server which is shared with other users at the same time.
VMware elects Paul Sagan in the board of directors
Yesterday VMware announced that David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure and CFO of EMC, has left the board of directors.
Goulden will be replaced by Paul Sagan, former Akamai’s CEO, member of EMC’s board and partner and XIR with General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital focused on cloud computing, hyper-connectivity and mobility, media and big data.
VMware announces Q1 vExperts 2014
VMware vExpert is the program, started in 2009, that “rewards” the individuals who has been recognized as active contributors of the community that rotates around the VMware ecosystem.
The program provides three possible paths: Evangelist, Customer and VPN (VMware Partner Network) in order to include all the bloggers, book authors, speakers, tool developers, etc. who wish to apply for this annual award.
Yesterday VMware announced the first round of 2014 vExperts through a post on the VMTN blog and I would like to congratulate with Kenneth, Marcel and, in for the first time, myself for being on this list (.. and, of course, with all of those who are there with us).
Red Hat releases beta of Enterprise Virtualization version 3.4
Red Hat has released a beta for an upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) platform version 3.4. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is Red Hats virtualization platform based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 Beta is available immediately to existing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers.
New features in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 Beta include:
Release: VMware vCenter Log Insight 2.0-beta
Log Insight is VMware’s product for log aggregation, management and analysis. Introduced in June 2013, Log Insight is kept updated with a fast pace in order to be competitive on this market where Splunk, which provides similar functionalities, is still considered the leader.
The new features introduced with version 2.0-bet can be resumed as follows:
Release: Citrix XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5
In January Citrix announced the upcoming 7.5 version of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product XenDesktop and desktop and virtualization product XenApp. At that time especially the fact that the XenApp product returned since it was integrated in XenDesktop when version 7.1 was released. The reason for this was the integration of both platforms to the Flexcast Management Architecture (FMA) platform, providing better integration between the XenApp and XenDesktop products.
Transforming the feature set from XenApp 6.5 to the XenDesktop 7.1 caused a lot of features in the XenApp product to disappear, as noted by Citrix CTP Alexander Ervik Johnsen en Brian Madden on his website. Based on these articles, we can conclude that bringing back the XenApp product name is more marketing related than technical.
Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.10
Oracle has released a new version of its virtualization platform VM Virtualbox. Version 4.3.10 is considered a maintenance release which improves stability and add some new experimental features.
Some of the changes as detailed in the changelog:
- Experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled
- Fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export
- Windows installer: make the –silent parameter work again
- Install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory