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After announcing vSphere 5.0 in July this year, VMware now has made vSphere 5.0 which consists of ESXi and vCenter Server generally available for download.

When VMware introduced vSphere they also introduced a new licensing model based on the amount of memory allocated for a virtual machine when it is powered on. This caused a lot of discussion dubbed "vTax" after which VMware decided to update its Licensing and Pricing terms, this still is causing a lot of discussion for certain scenario’s though.

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In May Citrix released a technical preview of the next version of its Receiver software for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac. Today Citrix released version 3.0 making it generally available. Receiver is the application which is installed on clients in order to access hosted applications and desktops. The Receiver will replace the Online Plug-in for Windows which is now embedded in Receiver.

Besides releasing new Receivers, Citrix also released XenClient 2.0, XenDesktop 5.5 and XenApp 6.5.

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Citrix today announced the release of version 6.5 of its desktop and application virtualization platform XenApp.

Besides releasing XenApp 6.5, Citrix also released XenClient 2.0, XenDesktop 5.5 and new versions of the Connector for Windows and Mac.

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In May this year, during Citrix Synergy Citrix announced a technical preview of the next version of its client hypervisor XenClient version 2.0. Today Citrix released version 2.0 making it generally available.

Besides releasing XenClient 2.0 Citrix also released XenApp version 6.5, XenDesktop 5.5 and new versions of the Connector for Windows and Mac.

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Citrix today announced the general availability of version 5.5 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform XenDesktop. The product comes with the RingCube technology which Citrix acquired earlier this month at no extra costs in each edition. Citrix also released XenApp version 6.5, XenClient 2.0 and new versions of the Connector for Windows and Mac.

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Aidan Finn, a Microsoft MVP with the Virtual Machine expertise has released a new whitepaper titled: "Planning Cluster Shared Volumes & Backup". The paper which contains 34 pages, covers Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), a single storage volume shared by multiple Hyper-V hosts and how to design your backup solution when using CSV.

The paper covers the following topics:

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Oracle has announced the release of version 3.0 of its x86 enterprise virtualization solution VM Server. This version provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility and a new GUI. Oracle VM is still the only certified solution for use with all Oracle software.

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Catbird, the company providing security and compliance solutions with a focus on the virtualization market and VMware has signed an agreement where Catbird will OEM the vShield technology to integrate its functionality into its vSecurity product.

vSecurity proactively secures the virtual network and guest operating systems by analyzing and responding to network events and attack, and enforcing correct VM configuration. By integrating the vShield technology from VMware it will now be possible to deploy the vShield application from the Catbird product.

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VMTurbo has announced that Louis Shipley will join the company as President and CEO. Besides that Shipley will join the board of directors, and will replace founder and current President and CEO Shmuel Kliger. Kliger will focus on product and technology strategy and strategic partnerships, the company announced.

Shipley comes from Citrix, where he was VP & GM for the Datacenter and Cloud Division, which means that we have yet another high executive leaving Citrix.

In May this year, Harry Labana left Citrix to become CTO of AppSense, followed in June by Simon Crosby, a former CTO and Simon Pratt a former VP which announced to leave Citrix to start a new company called Bromium. virtualization.info already described the implications of Citrix loosing these executives shortly after Crosby and Pratt leaving Citrix, these news makes the problem for Citrix even greater.

Microsoft has released a whitepaper titled: "Running SQL Server with Hyper-V Dynamic Memory". The paper which contains 39 pages covers how to configure Dynamic Memory, introduced with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, when running SQL Server workloads on top of Hyper-V.

For testing the scenarios a two-node IBM x3850 X5 Server with Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster was used, with 32 physical processor cores and 128 GB of RAM. Storage was provided by a dedicated HDS AMS2500 storage system.

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