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29 octobre 2009

VMware France inaugure ses 'sessions privées' avec VDI

VMware France inaugure ses 'sessions privées' avec VDI
J'ai trouvé formidable ce mail qui m'est parvenu aujourd'hui avec pour thème une présentation en 'session privée' à des utilisteurs finaux le dernier né de la gamme VDI : View 4. Vous noterez que ça n'empiète pas du tout sur les sujets abordés lors du...
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29 octobre 2009

Virtualisation : Oracle se réveille!!

Virtualisation : Oracle se réveille!!
Vu sur Virtuanews : Oracle VM commence à être pris au sérieux Il y a à peine six mois, lors du Salon Solutions Linux & Open Source 09, Kuassi Mensah, porte parole Oracle venu s’exprimer lors d’une table ronde sur la virtualisation aux côtés de Microsoft,...
29 octobre 2009

How-to enable PvSCSI and when

How-to enable PvSCSI and when
VMware Paravirtualized SCSI (PVSCSI driver) Introduced with vSphere 4 this driver can speed up and offload CPU. VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter is able to achieve 12% more throughput with 18% less CPU cost compared to the LSI virtual adapter....
29 octobre 2009

vSphere v4.? Beta coming up…

VMware employee Michael Adams just revealed that there’s a beta program for new features or a new release of vSphere. We are looking for beta participants to test out some new vSphere features currently in development. Interested? If so, contact your...
29 octobre 2009

Upcoming Webcasts on Best Practices for Virtualizing MS Server Applications

We’ve got some great webcasts coming up in the next few weeks to discuss recommendations for virtualizing MS server applications and the benefits of choosing hyper-V + System Center as your virtualization solution. Each technical webcast will focus on...
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29 octobre 2009

VMware Workstation 7 se met à l’heure 7

VMware Workstation 7 se met à l’heure 7
VMware vient de mettre à jour son hyperviseur Workstation et apporte maintenant la gestion du nouveau système d’exploitation de Microsoft. Meilleure gestion des systèmes hôtes Workstation 7 se destine avant tout aux développeurs et autres professionnels...
22 octobre 2009

Free video from vSphere 4 Training course from TrainSignal

This free video comes from TranSignal’s best Selling course for learning vSphere 4 Virtual Infrastructure. It’s HD video so best is to watch in full screen. Trainsignal and David Davis does great job with those courses. In easy and consistent case scenarios...
22 octobre 2009

Migration du rôle Hyper-V vers Windows Server 2008 R2 depuis Windows Server 2008

Un fiche support explique les méthodes supportées pour effectuer cette mise à niveau cf http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957256 Pour résumer Méthode 1 Effectuer une mise à niveau “in place upgrade” de la partition parente à partir de Windows Server 2008...
19 octobre 2009

Before Host Profiles there was vicfg-cfgbackup.pl

This last weekend I was reminded of a RCLI command that creates a backup of your ESXi Host configuration. A client had an ESXi host where the USB drive failed. The system didn’t entirely crash, it pinged so HA didn’t kick-in however hostd and vpxa weren’t...
18 octobre 2009

Active / Standby etherchannels?

Active / Standby etherchannels?
I’ve seen this a couple of times already and just had a very long phone call with a customer who created the following set up: So basically the first two nics are active with load balancing set to IP-Hash and configured as an Etherchannel on the stacked...
18 octobre 2009

Best Practices: running vCenter virtual (vSphere)

Yesterday we had a discussion on running vCenter virtual on one of the internal mailinglists. One of the gaps identified was the lack of a best practices document. Although there are multiple for VI3 and there are some KB articles these do need seem to...
18 octobre 2009

Hyper-V Hotfix for "0x00000101 - CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT" on Nehalem systems

We have just released a new hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 that address the issue that users were getting a bluescreen of death on Intel Xeon 5500 series processor-based computers with the following text: 0x00000101 (parameter1, 0000000000000000, parameter3,...
18 octobre 2009

Hotfix needed to move R2 differencing disk to Windows Server 2008

A virtualization MVP recently bought this to my attention: In Windows Server 2008 R2 there was a minor change to the format of differencing virtual hard disks. As a result you will need to apply an update to Windows Server 2008 if you want to move differencing...
16 octobre 2009

Oracle VM 2.2 intègre Xen 3.4

Oracle a profité de l’Oracle OpenWorld 2009 pour présenter son nouvel hyperviseur VM 2.2 bâti sur Xen 3.4 et optimisé pour les derniers Xeon Nehalem d’Intel et Opteron Istanbul d’AMD. Optimisations logicielles Il aura donc fallu cinq mois à Oracle entre...
15 octobre 2009

Virtualisation de serveurs Windows : PSA abandonne VMware pour l'Hyper-V de Microsoft

Le constructeur automobile français a entamé un vaste projet de virtualisation de son parc de serveurs Windows. A l'origine utilisateur de VMware ESX Server, PSA a finalement décidé de standardiser ses déploiements sur Hyper-V. L'hyperviseur de Microsoft...
15 octobre 2009

Windows 7 Eval VHD now available for Hyper-V

We have just released a prebuilt Windows 7 evaluation virtual hard disk for use with Hyper-V that you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=606ae07e-b7db-405b-974b-dd61fc41add4 Windows validation is required...
15 octobre 2009

The Time to Redefine Client Application Licensing is Now

There’s been plenty of fanfare surrounding the release of Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 this week. I plan to blog about the XenDesktop 4.0 technical features after I’ve spent some quality time with them in my lab over the next couple of weeks. However, I’d like...
15 octobre 2009

New feature in VMware Workstation 7 – Auto Protect

New feature in VMware Workstation 7 – Auto Protect
AutoProtect – Very convenient way to work and have your VM been snapshotted automatically in the upcoming release of VMware Workstation. This is really cool feature which is useful and don’t want to worry about doing and managing snapshots manualy. The...
2 octobre 2009

VMware vSphere QuickStart Series is a free 4-part training

The VMware vSphere QuickStart Series is a free 4-part training series designed for new customers, new admins, and evaluators. Part 1: Install & Configure ESXi:VMware vSphere deployment architecture; install/configure ESXi, networking & storage, and VMware...
30 septembre 2009

How to fix: Hypervisor not running

This is a Hypervisor 101 case that keeps showing itself every so often the forums, mailing lists, etc: A message to the effect of “The Hypervisor is not running” when a user tries to launch a VM. Felipe Ayora, one of our awesome UA people, has created...
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