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Tool: Unattended Linux VM Configuration Tool for Hyper-V – UPDATED

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Yusuf Ozturk, the guy who developed the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V Debian Package just released a new tool called: Unattended Linux VM Configuration Tool for Hyper-V. The tool which is provided as a Windows PowerShell module is able to create Linux Virtual Machines on a Hyper-V host is able to modify VM templates or clean installed Linux VMs, supporting Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat and Suse Linux, with automatic Linux integration components installation. If you create a source Linux VM, you are able to clone it and change the information via Set-LinuxVM command.

The module can be executed on a Hyper-V host directly, no System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) environment is needed, but SCVMM is supported as target.

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Release: Citrix XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2

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Citrix has released Service Pack 2 for its virtualization platform product XenServer 5.6. Service Pack 2 can be installed on top of XenServer 5.6 or XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 which was released in December last year adding functionality such as distributed virtual switching, automated VM protection and recovery and a web management console for delegated administration.

Service Pack 2 contains fixes and adds the following new features since Feature Pack 1:

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Release: VKernel Chargeback with Hyper-V 2.6

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VKernel has released version 2.6 of its Chargeback with Hyper-V product adding support for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV).Chargeback with Hyper-V is capable of measuring actual or allocated resource usage by application or business group.

Chargeback with Hyper-V is provided as a Virtual Appliance which provides similar functionality as the VKernel Chargeback product for VMware environments which VKernel recently combined with their report module and rebranded as vOps Reporting and Chargeback becoming part of their vOperations Suite. Chargeback with Hyper-V collects information directly from System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and connects into the SCVMM Self Service Portal.

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Release: VKernel Capacity Analyzer with Hyper-V 4.4

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VKernel has released version 4.4. of its Capacity Analyzer with Hyper-V product adding support for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV). Capacity Analyzer with Hyper-V is capable of finding current & future performance bottlenecks in storage, memory, CPU & storage I/O.

Capacity Analyzer with Hyper-V is provided as a Virtual Appliance which provides similar functionality as the VKernel Capacity Analyzer product for VMware environments which VKernel recently rebranded as vOps Capacity Manager becoming part of their vOperations Suite. Capacy Analyzer with Hyper-V collects its performance metrics from System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).

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Release: Citrix XenDesktop 5 Service Pack 1

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In December last year, Citrix released version 5 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platform XenDesktop. Now Citrix has released Service Pack 1 adding support for XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2, Microsoft SCVMM R2 Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Service Pack 1 and VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1.

Besides fixing issues, Citrix XenDesktop 5 Service Pack 1 adds the following new features:

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Ubuntu to leave Eucalyptus for OpenStack

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After supporting the Eucalyptus platform, reaching 25.000 cloud deployments and customers as large as Nasa, Ubuntu will abandon Eucalyptus for OpenStack, said today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Bucarest Canonical’s Server Engineering manager.

Neil Levine, the head of the cloud initiative and one of the top execs of the company, left Canonical only a few days ago: it is very easy today to make a connection between the two events.
The latest version of OpenStack, Cactus, will be available for the 11.04 Ubuntu release: however, the change will be effective since Oneric Ocelot, where the default cloud platform will effectively be OpenStack.

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Paper: VMware vSphere 4.1 Networking Performance

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VMware recently published an in-depth analysis about the latest vSphere network performance. The paper, downloadable here without any registration, goes into details explaining how VMware handles various high load benchmarks under various operating systems and configurations.

Performance of VMs communicating among each other and with systems outside the hosts are measured and correlated with the processing power (number of vCPUs) and NICs, showing the scalability results.
Interesting facts: throughput compared to 3.5 seems to have increased ten times, and a single VM can generate so much traffic to saturate a physical 10Gbs interface all by itself.