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Survey: VMware vSphere storage reservation

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Frank Denneman senior technical marketing architect within the Cloud Infrastructure Product Marketing group at VMware is conducting a survey about storage reservation, a feature coming to vSphere which is currently in development.

The current version of Storage I/O Control provides tools to prioritize and provide fairness to I/O streams of virtual machines. However the current version does not provide a function to specify number of IOPS to guarantee a minimum level. Because the storage subsystem can be shared, external workloads can impact the performance capacity (in terms of IOPS) of the datastores and therefore a guarantee cannot be met temporarily. This is one of the challenges that must be taken into account when developing storage reservations and we must understand how stringent you want the guarantee to be.

You can take the survey here.

Paper: Top Six Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools

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Quest Software, which is now part of Dell has released a paper titled: "Top Six Tips for Configuring vSphere Resource Pools". The paper which contains 7 pages is written by Greg Shields, a VMware vExpert. The Paper details six key tips to keep in mind when configuring resource pools in VMware vSphere.

Resource pools aren’t going anywhere. In fact, as our industry continues its slow embrace of cloud computing, we’re likely to see more of resource pools in the near to midterm future. No matter whether you’re cloud-bound or sticking with classic virtualization for now, keep an eye on your resource pools and remember these six key tips for using them wisely.

The paper can be downloaded after registration on the website of Dell.

VMware announces public beta of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager version 1.1

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In November last year, VMware released version 1.0 of its vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager, an optional module which is capable of managing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor from vCenter. Now VMware has announced a public beta for a new version 1.1 of the Multi-Hypervisor Manager, which will support Microsofts latest hypervisor as part of Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V 3.0.

The beta of version 1.1. includes:

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Comparison: VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat Virtualization Matrix

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In January this year, we reported about the extensive community work of Andreas Groth comparing the virtualization features of different virtualization platform vendors. The Virtualization Matrix received an update this week, now including Red Hat’s KVM solution in the comparison. Andreas also updated Citrix to version 6.1 with data from CloudPlatform and updated VMware with its latest Horizon Suite announcement.

The reference matrix, allows you to select and compare license specific capabilities of selected x86 server virtualization technologies, separated by feature category (General, Management, Hypervisor and Extensions). The comparison is available at the following website: http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/

Paper: State of the VDI and SBC union 2013

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In October last year, virtualization.info reported on a Survey titled State of the VDI and SBC union hosted by Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC). The Survey has since then been filled in by more than 600 responders and now Project VRC has made the results available in a new paper titled: “State of the VDI and SBC union 2013“. The paper which contains 69 pages is available for download after registration on the Project VRC website.

 The paper covers all of the questions asked in the survey, and comes with the following main conclusions:

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