Citrix has released a paper titled:"XenDesktop 7.1 on Hyper-V Hands-on Lab Pilot Guide". The paper which contains 299 pages provides hands-on experience with the configuration and operation of XenDesktop 7.1 and related components. The guide can be used to build a Proof of Concept (PoC) and/or pilot environment.
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Paper: VMware Horizon Mirage Branch Office Reference Architecture
VMware has released a paper titled:"VMware Horizon Mirage Branch Office Reference Architecture". The paper which contains 28 pages covers a reference architecture for VMware Horizon Mirage. Horizon Mirage provides centralized image management for Windows desktops with enhanced levels of backup and OS migration capabilities. The reference architecture provides guidance on how to backup desktops deployed throughout the enterprise, and how to migrate remote desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7.
The paper includes test results detailing the results of Horizon Mirage to backup and migrate 10 remote endpoints from Windows XP to Windows 7.
Book: Microsoft System Center: Building a Virtualized Network Solution
Microsoft has released a free eBook titled: "Microsoft System Center: Building a Virtualized Network Solution". The book is written by Nigel Cain, Alvin Morales, Michel Luescher, Damian Flynn and Mitch Tulloch as a series editor and contains 121 pages covering the concepts of virtualized network solutions from Microsoft. Network Virtualization decouples virtual networks from the physical network infrastructure and removes the constraints and limitations of VLANs and hierarchical IP address assignment from virtual machine provisioning.
Release: Xen 4.3.2. and 4.2.4
The Xen Project, the community which develops the Xen hypervisor under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and which is now transferred from Citrix to the Linux Foundation, today announced the availability of two maintenance releases version 4.3.2 and 4.2.4 of the Xen hypervisor.
Besides fixing some vulnerabilities, this release also includes bug fixes and improvements.
Release: Catbird 6.0
Catbird has released version 6.0 of Catbird, a rebranded name for which was known as the vSecurity products. In the past, Catbird released the products for several hypervisors, like ESXi and Hyper-V individually, but has now decided to rebrand this under one product.
Catbird is a well-known security player in the virtualization market with its product able to proactively secure the virtual network and guest operating systems by analyzing and responding to network events and attack, and enforcing correct VM configuration automatically mapping to industry-standard compliance frameworks such PCI, HIPAA, FISMA and COBIT.
Dell announces hardware support for Storage Spaces
Earlier this week, Dell announced support for Storage Spaces as provided by Windows Server.
Storage Spaces is a virtualization technology which groups disks into storage pools and allows for creation of virtual disks from that pool. It provides automatic storage tiering and disk resiliency.
Supported hardware includes Dell’s PowerEdge Servers, cost-effective SAS 6Gb/s host bus adapters (HBAs), persistent reservation HDDs and SSDs, and PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 storage enclosures.
Promox joins Linux Foundation
Promox Server Solutions GmbH headquartered in Vienna, Austria announced to have joined the Linux Foundation, a non-profit technology institution founded 2007 supporting the development of Linux and open sources companies. Promox produces Proxmox Virtual Environment, an open source virtualization management solution that leverages KVM technologies.
Paper: Reference Architecture for Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace
Dell has released a paper titled: "Reference Architecture for Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft VDI and vWorkspace". The paper which contains 83 pages describes a Dell Wyse Datacenter for Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and vWorkspace scaling from 10 to 50,000 desktop virtualization users. It adresses the architecture design, configuration and implementation considerations for the key components of the architecture required to deliver virtual desktops via Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS or Dell vWorkspace 8.0 MR1 on Microsoft Hyper-V.
Scott Guthrie replaces Nadella at Microsoft Enterprise & Cloud group
After the big announcement of the new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft appoints Corporate VP Scott Guthrie as Cloud Chief, taking over from Nadella the Cloud and Enterprise Group.
Guthrie, former leader of the Windows Azure team at Microsoft, joined the company in 1997 and since then he has been working as General Manager within the Developer Division of Microsoft and Corporate Vice President within the Developer Division at Microsoft, heading the teams who contributed to creation of the .NET Framework, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IIS, the XAML runtimes for Windows Phone and Windows 8 and tooling features within Visual Studio.
Release: Icomasoft opvizor 2.2
Icomasoft, a Swiss company announced the release of version 2.0 of opvizor, a software-as-a-service solution designed to identify, diagnose and eliminate performance, security and configuration issues in VMware and NetApp environments. Opvizor connects to your environment and uses a central rule base running in opvizors datacenter.