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24 mars 2009

HA enhancements, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter

HA enhancements, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter
Let’s start with a screenshot: These are the properties of an HA cluster, as you can see there are two sections that changed: “Enable Host Monitoring” is a brand new feature. Anyone who did network maintenance while HA was enabled knows why this feature...
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24 mars 2009

An 8MB VMFS blocksize doesn’t increase performance?

VMFS Blocksizes have always been a hot topic regarding storage performance. It has been discussed by many including Eric Siebert on ITKE and Gabe also opened a topic on VMTN and he answered his own question at the bottom. Steve Chamber wrote a great article...
22 mars 2009

VMware vCenter Mobile Access & Virtual Appliances

VMware vCenter Mobile Access & Virtual Appliances
VMware just announced that there’s a new technology preview coming up, vCenter Mobile Access. For a demo/preview go to the VMTN Blog section: vCenter Mobile Access . Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). vCMA allows you to monitor and manage...
22 mars 2009

Two new patches for ESX(i) 3.5

VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below: ESX350-200903412-BG...
22 mars 2009

Updated: Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide

The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment guide is available online (here) and is constantly being updated with more and more information. On top of this we periodically roll up this information into standalone documentation that is easier to take, print out,...
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19 mars 2009

The Thrilla in California

If you haven’t seen, differences of opinion between VMware and Citrix with regards to hypervisor performance and how it should be measured have passed the boiling point. Today’s highlights included the following posts: Hypervisor Test Fallout Continues...
19 mars 2009

Sept bonnes pratiques pour réussir un projet de virtualisation de serveurs

Avis d'expert - Un projet de virtualisation poursuit des objectifs économiques et stratégiques, et impacte fortement les infrastructures, l’organisation et le personnel IT. Voici sept bonnes pratiques permettant de mieux gérer ces changements. 1 - Définir...
18 mars 2009

Whitepaper: Performance Evaluation of AMD RVI Hardware Assist

I recently discussed the effect of RVI/Virtualized MMU on Transparent page Sharing, and just 5 days later VMware published this extensive PDF:” Performance Evaluation of AMD RVI Hardware Assist “. AMD recently introduced its second generation of hardware...
18 mars 2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 (VDI) - Deploying RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Step-by-Step Guide disponible

c'est ici http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2f5b9705-bc09-466e-882b-7227cbb39183 "In Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta, RemoteApp and Desktop Connection is a feature of Remote Desktop Services that provides administrators...
17 mars 2009

esxcfg-scsidevs, Exploring the next version of ESX!

Whenever I do a beta test of a product / OS the first thing I do is check if all the features / commands that I used with the previous version still exist. When I did an “esxcfg- tab tab” on the next version of ESX one thing stood out, esxcfg-vmhbadevs...
11 mars 2009

XenServer Enterprise for free?

Before anyone starts shouting, yes I’m a VMware employee and a VMware fanatic or whatever they call it these days . One of my customers phoned me up today and wanted to discuss the fact that XenServer Enterprise is available for free. I wasn’t prepared...
11 mars 2009

vCenter 2.5 U4 performance plugin install script

I just received an email from my colleague Massimiliano Daneri. He wrote a script that automates the installation of the new performance reporting plugin. Richard Garsthagen already wrote an article including screenshots about the plugin by the way, take...
11 mars 2009

Vos contrôleurs de domaine sont-ils virtualisable ? OUI...

C’est une question qui revient très régulièrement au cours de mes projets Virtualisation chez mes clients. La réponse simple est : OUI ! Les serveurs d’infrastructure sont, par définition, de très bons candidats à la virtualisation. Maintenant s’agissant...
11 mars 2009

Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V: First Impressions

Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V: First Impressions
Citrix announced the release of Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V. Yes – Essentials supports both XenServer and Hyper-V. Prior to the announcement, Citrix gave me the opportunity to evaluate Citrix Essentials in my lab, which I naturally accepted....
11 mars 2009

Statut officiel sur le support du teaming sur un hôte Hyper-V

Suite au bulletin précédement posté sur notre blog et comme annoncé, la fiche technique décrivant le statut officiel du support des fonctionnalité de teaming est disponible. L’article ne présente pas de nouveauté par rapport à tout ce qui a déjà été dit...
10 mars 2009

Microsoft Services organise un séminaire dédié à la virtualisation !

La division Services de Microsoft France organise une matinée dédiée à la mise en œuvre des technologies de virtualisation (Hyper-v & SCVMM) et aux bonnes pratiques pour la conduite de ce type de projet. Nous aurons aussi le plaisir d’accueillir le témoignage...
10 mars 2009

Une nouvelle fiche technique pour Hyper-V

Il se peut que vous subissiez un problème de connexion à vos machines virtuelles via VMConnect. Dans ce cas, vous trouverez le bulletin officiel concernant ce comportement sur le blog officiel de la division Windows Server : Hyper-V certificate expiration...
10 mars 2009

Working around the pass through limitations of the Hyper-V VSS Writer

While the Hyper-V VSS writer provides backup admins significant flexibility in their ability to back up VMs in an application-consistent way while running backup applications in the physical machine, it does have a prominent limitation when it comes to...
24 février 2009

VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 released today!

just noticed that VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 has been released. I wanted to say: download it and install, but looking at the attendee numbers most of my readers will probably be at VMworld! What’s new? Guest Operating System Customization Improvements...
24 février 2009

Script: Creating an external-only virtual network with Hyper-V

Script: Creating an external-only virtual network with Hyper-V (one without a connection in the parent partition). Merci Ben !! http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/02/19/script-creating-an-external-only-virtual-network-with-hyper-v.aspx...
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