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virtualization.info Editors Citrix today released a technical preview available for download of version 7.1 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product XenDesktop. You’ll need to have a Subscription Advantage in order to download the Technical Preview. The final version once released will mainly support the Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Operating Systems which will be generally available later this month.
Version 7.1 provides the following new features:
VMware has released a paper titled:"What’s New in VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache". The paper which contains 13 pages gives an overview of what’s new for Flash Read Cache in vSphere 5.5. Flash Read Cache is a Flash-based storage solution which
provides persistent Flash-based storage tier services by utilizing local Flash-based devices on vSphere hosts.
Because the use of a host-based write-through cache is transparent to applications, the solution enables vSphere virtual infrastructures to use the Virtual Flash Resources without having to modify applications. The Virtual Flash Read Cache solution enhances the performance of read-intensive workloads and provides seamless integration with vSphere enterprise features such as vSphere vMotion, vSphere HA and vSphere DRS.
When designing a solution which does replication one of the questions are: how much bandwidth does the replication traffic uses?
VMware has a solution called vSphere Replication which is able to replicate selected virtual machines for disaster recovery purposes.
To model the impact on the network VMware recently released a new tool named vSphere Replication Capacity Planning Appliance. This free tool available as a fling (unsupported technology preview software) can be used without producing actual replication traffic.
The years passes by and, since virtualization.info started to track virtualization market in 2003 and cloudcomputing.info, its sister publication, the cloud computing market in 2010, our team evolved as these markets themselves have done.
Alessandro, founder and former chief editor of both publications, joined Gartner as Research Director, Claudio was hired from Google and others were absorbed from Fortune 500 companies or founded their own, these successes confirm the talent of those who contributed and who are still contributing to our mission: tracking the evolution of virtualization and cloud computing markets, as well as their technology impact in the IT world, offering ahead of the curve, exhaustive coverage of both industries.
Today I’m pleased to welcome in our team Marcel van den Berg a well-known professional in the world of virtualization and cloud computing.
In August during VMworld VMware launched NSX, its network virtualization platform.
This is the video of the VMworld session that introduces the details of the product and its components, alongside the possible integrations with third party platforms and some examples of use cases.
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This week VMware released version 5.5. of its virtualization platform vSphere. Now VMware has released a paper titled: "Performance Best Practices for vSphere 5.5" . The paper which contains 90 pages provides performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware vSphere 5.5.
The paper contains the following chapters:
Citrix has hired Steve Wilson as Vice President of Cloud Engineering. Wilson is leaving Oracle/Sun Microsystems where he worked for almost 13 years in total. In his last position he was VP of Engineering and responsible for engineering of hardware, firmware, operating system and virtualization management software within the Oracle Enterprise Manager suite of products.
In his new position Wilson will be responsible for development of the Citrix CloudPlatform and CloudPortal products and technologies.
VMware has lost its Senior Director Enterprise Mobile Solutions: Srinivas Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti was Senior Director Enterprise Mobile Solutions for 3 1/2 years and responsible for product management and overall Marketing, BD and Partnerships strategy for VMware’s mobile products, his profile is still listed on the VMware website though. He has worked in several other functions at VMware for almost 20 years. His linkedin profile now shows that he is co-founder of a company yet to be disclosed.
Kristian Nese and Flemming Ris, both Cloud and Datacenter MVP’s have released a paper titled:”Hybrid Cloud with NVGRE“. The paper contains 72 pages.
NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to alleviate the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. It uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to tunnel layer 2 packets over layer 3 networks. With the upcoming release of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 NVGRE has made some huge enhancements, which are outlined in this paper.This white paper is meant to show you a real world deployment of a fabric infrastructure that is supporting network virtualization with NVGRE for hybrid cloud computing.