I have been preparing my virtual environment for a VMware vSphere upgrade. Specifically I have been going over my existing hardware with an eye towards running all aspects of vSphere including VMware Fault Tolerance (FT), NPIV, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and well everything.
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News: Parallels Announce Virtuozzo Containers 4.5 for Windows Release Candidate Evaluation Program
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5 Windows Release candiate is available for download. Virtuozzo Containers is a market leading OS virtualization solution for Windows and Linux and can deliver high density, low effective virtualization environments.
vSphere enters Common Criteria testing.
VMware vSphere has started its journey to Common Criteria certification,
The Thrilla in California
At this years Catalyst conference in San Diego a heavyweight championship match was laid on with Scott Drummonds of VMware in the red corner and Simon Crosby of Citrix in the blue one.
Virtualizing High Performance Computing
There have been a recent set of VMware Communities questions that have got me thinking about the prospect of virtualizing high performance computing (vHPC) and whether or not this is even practical, reasonable, and would give any gains to HPC. I think there are some gains to be made but with everything there are some concerns as well. This is of interest to me as at one time I was deep into High Performance Technical Computing and marrying Virtualization to HPC/HPTC would be a very interesting option.
Can the SMB Afford Virtualization?
There has been quite a bit of debate about SMB virtualization and what they want. However, no one has really looked into whether or not the SMB can afford virtualization. There is quite a bit of talk that says that the SMB wants everything for free, or that they will get immediate benefits from virtualization, but can they actually afford VMware, HyperV, XenServer, or KVM?