With the beginning of December, Veeam has announced the availability of the new version of its backup solution known (and data replication). Let the news with Veeam Backup & Replication 6.
The trend of companies are now preferring to virtual environments compared to physical servers. Citrix offers an interesting document of best practices for virtualizing XenApp workloads.
Gartner Group recently published a new report on the virtualization of servers updated in June 2011, with important news.
Last month, Microsoft made available for free iSCSI Software Target, a product that was built into Windows Storage Server. With this software you can create very inexpensive SAN for use in laboratories.
In an old post on the Citrix community blog I found the reporting of this interesting product for trasfrormare a server in a small iSCSI SAN.
It was already been too long since acquisition and not to get too far behind, Citrix has decided to end the month of August with the acquisition of VMlogix.
IDC published the results of the virtualization of servers in the world for the last quarter of 2009.
Hyper9 recently released an API simulator of VMware vSphere 4, which provides for compatilità vCenter client applications developed using the vSphere SDK.
Interesting opportunity to test the technology with VDI Citrix hypervisor from Microsoft, all in a virtual laboratory accessible free of charge via the Internet!
About a year ago, Virtual Reality Check published benchmark results carried out on VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V. Now comes the "Phase 2" project, which incorporated the stress-tests on new versions of hypervisors tested with the new Intel Nehalem.
The alignment of the underlying storage infrastructure partitions is a theme that returns very often in the analysis and implementation of virtual architecture. In reality, the problem also exists in the physical world virtually wherever you have a RAID controller, but is mitigated by the fact that access to records is limited to single server (so there's only if I / O very intense). In the virtual world, where multiple hosts are accessing the same LUN to manage multiple virtual machines, the alignment problem can become a bottleneck in the overall performance of our virtual infrastructure.
Putting aside the many comments on the usefulness or not of memory overcommitment in the field of virtual machines, it is indisputable that this feature is interesting, possibly with the possibility of not being used.
Citrix has released a major upgrade of Citrix Essential for Hyper-V: This is the StorageLink Site Recovery, an integrated solution for managing the recovery site.
VMLogix is a startup focused on automating the American born in 2006 and management of laboratory environments, especially past the headlines for the OEM agreement with Citrix (that re-package the product in the Essentials for XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V).
In a surprise move, Microsoft has decided to release the source code of the Linux Component Integration for Hyper-V as open source under the GPL v2.
