When we attended a class last year, they showed a mock simulated day using VMware’s DPM (distributed power management). It basically shuts down ESX hosts when they aren’t in use and fires them back up as needed. They claim it saves like 70% in power. That seems like a pretty big claim, I have my [...]
At the end of the last week Reuters broke the news about an upcoming joint venture between EMC, its subsidiary VMware and Cisco. The three should announce a new product portfolio this week, called vBlock, probably gluing together Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Nexus, EMC V-Max and VMware vSphere, which the joint venture will [...]
Yesterday, finally, Red Hat announced the availability of its new virtualization offering, which includes a platform based on KVM and an enterprise virtualization manager. The company already released Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 in mid September, which features KVM in the same way (despite technical differences in the architecture) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 features Hyper-V. The [...]
Earlier this week VMware updated its entire desktop virtualization line, releasing Workstation 7.0, Player 3.0, ACE 2.6 and of course Fusion 3.0. The new version of Fusion (build 204229) introduces a notable number of features, including: 64bit engine Virtual EFI (to replace the legacy virtual BIOS and grant full compatibility with Mac OS X) Embedded [...]
In June the new startup Liquidware Labs released the first rebranded version of the VMsight technology acquired in May: Stratusphere 4.2. They are back this week with the first consistent update and easy to guess the new 4.5 version integrates the technology acquired from Entrigue Systems in September: ProfileUnity. In details Stratusphere 4.5 introduces support [...]
The VMware team released a paper a couple weeks ago about the performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on vSphere 4.0 Release Candidate (build 140815). They used their standard 16,000 mailbox testing enviroment across 8 VM’s on a HP DL580 with 128GB of memory. The storage was handled by a NetApp FAS6030 array. Their test [...]
VMware gained the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ for their Virtual Infrastructure 3 Platform last year. With the release of vSphere 4.0, it was very logical for them to apply for certification as well. VMware is hoping to attain certification by 2010.
Vmware confirmed the rumors about VMworld Europe: VMware postpones the VMworld Europe from Q1 to Q4. This will give the vendors more time to prepare between VMworld San Francisco and VMworld Europe. Unfortunately this will also force Europeans that were planning to forego VMworld San Francisco to have to wait an entire year. On a [...]
Exactly two years ago aquired XenSource, thus entering the server and desktop virtualization market. This put them in competition with their former partner VMware. It cost Citrix $500 million for this acquisition. Recently they posted a chart directly challenging VMware View: From their Blogs and Webinar: FAQ: What differentiates the Citrix + Netapp VDI [...]
VMware releases View 4.0 private beta using PCoIP protocol. Vmware has been trying to replace Microsoft RDP since 2007. Currently the PcoIP only works with certain video cards. VMware must have overcome this obsticle because View 4.0 has embraced the PCoIP technology. VM will probably show a software implementation at VMworld next month.