Virtualisation

Attention !! Ce séminaire est destiné à une population technique déjà familiarisée avec les technologies VMware.   Rejoignez les experts du support VMware pour un séminaire d’une journée sur le dépannage des produits Vmware le mardi 8 novembre 2011. Vous aurez l’opportunité de recevoir les dernières nouvelles concernant les produits VMware et de découvrir les astuces de l’équipe technique du centre de support international de Cork en Irlande.Inscrivez-vous dès aujourd’hui et indiquez nous quelles présentations vous... [Lire la suite]

Citrix has released version 5 of VDI-in-a-Box, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution targeted at SMB’s it acquired after taking over Kaviza in May this year.   VDI-in-a-Box offers an all-in-one VDI solution that doesn’t require shared storage and dedicated load balanced connection brokers. Customers just have to deploy the virtual appliance on their hypervisor of choice and they are ready to go. This version is the follow-up of version 4.1 which was released in April this year. -->... [Lire la suite]

uring VMworld Europe, which was held in Kopenhagen last week, VMware announced the upcoming release of 2 products which itacquired from Shavlik Technolgies in May this year. The first product is VMware Go Pro, which VMware jointly developed with Shavlik. Go Pro is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering which can be used to manage on-premises vSphere Hypervisors and their VMs and physical machines from a single pane of glass and is targeted for SMBs. The product is available in two editions, the free to use Go version... [Lire la suite]

VMware has updated its View client for the iPad to version 1.2, introducing support for iOS 5 and Airplay. The View client can be used to connect to connect to a Windows Virtual Desktop running on top of VMware View, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution from VMware.   The product provides the following new features: Optimized for VMware View 5 with improved performance Support for iOS 5 including AirPlay Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay Embedded RSA soft token simplifies... [Lire la suite]

In this article we will look in some detail at the new features for offloading storage workloads to the SAN array. This is called VAAI – vStorage APIs for Array Integration and enables the ESXi host to hand over some work to the SAN which the SAN array might be best at doing. VAAI was introduced in vSphere 4.1 and had three offload features, called primitives, and in 5.0 another option was added for VMFS. We access the VMFS file system by block based methods, i.e. Fibre Channel or iSCSI and as we shall see this... [Lire la suite]

MC a tenu la semaine dernière un forum utilisateurs près de Boston. Le constructeur en a profité pour revenir sur certains sujets, VM sur les baies de stockage, le projet lightning, la rupture avec Dell et la succession de Joe Tucci. Un des messages forts porté par plusieurs intervenants d'EMC lors d'une conférence utilisateurs qui s'est déroulée la semaine dernière près de Boston était de dire que le constructeur vendrait du matériel pour les serveurs et supporterait la migration de VM vers ses solutions de stockage. Sur ce dernier... [Lire la suite]

VMware annonce vCenter Protect Essentials Plus et une extension de son service VMware Go Pro, deux solutions d'administration et de supervision en mode cloud qui vise notamment les PME.   En parallèle de ses résultats, fort bons au demeurant, VMware profite de ses conférences VMWorld de Copenhague pour annoncer deux solution en direction des entreprises de toutes tailles, PME notamment, levier de croissance pour le champion de la virtualisation : VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus et une extension    ... [Lire la suite]

Hewlett-Packard a lancé des serveurs préconfigurés avec le logiciel Hyper-V de Microsoft pour aider les entreprises à déployer des machines virtuelles plus rapidement. Le Virtual System d'HP pour Microsoft comprend des serveurs du constructeur et le logiciel de virtualisation Hyper-V de l'éditeur. Ils aideront les clients de déployer rapidement des applications, y compris SharePoint, Exchange Server et SQL Server, a déclaré Jeff Carlat, directeur des partenariats, ISS, ESSN chez HP. --> Le reste est à lire sur le site : ... [Lire la suite]

What we have for you right here is a detailed introduction to desktop virtualization (DV). When you’re through with this article, you’ll not only know what desktop virtualization is. You’ll also learn about the various types of desktop virtualization (there’s actually more than just VDI),  the reasons why companies are considering DV, what the benefits are, and even some tips and best practices. --> Please see the article on the website : http://www.petri.co.il/desktop-virtualization-xendesktop-5-part-1.htm 

Remember the days of Windows NT Server? I was among the many who mocked it as a serious data center server operating system. Then came Windows 2000 Server, and perceptions began to change. With the release of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft turned the tide of server OS dominance in the data center, placing Microsoft on a path to where the majority of servers would run a Windows OS. What initially seemed like a pipe dream became reality, and I was among many who were wrong about Microsoft’s chances as a dominant server OS vendor. That... [Lire la suite]