This article is a guide on how to always have your version of the ESX hypervisor in your pocket and be able to try any system if it boots with VMware’s flagship hypervisor, the ESX 3i free version with no limits of use. First of all, you need to have the version that can be […]
The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]
Big news from the Xen Summit in Tokyo in November 2008. Below is the agenda: Welcome & Keynote Hitoshi Matsumoto: Welcome Ian Pratt: Xen Project Status – English – Video (177 MB) Kernel Architecture Andrew Warfield: Services in the Virtualization Plane – English – Video (134 MB) Yoshiaki Tamura: Modernization of Kemari Using HVM with […]
On July 28, VMware’s ESXi 3.5 hypervisor, the state of the art of hypervisors It has been made FREE, freely downloadable and installable. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is available for free download on October 2nd The Xen hypervisor, notoriously FREE in various versions, can be downloaded in the XenExpress version here The new free version of […]
Citrix is now open to the standard format of Virtual Machines, which means that now a virtual machine is like a series of settings that exported to VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V will be the same thing, just use the appropriate conversion tool and the game (format migration) is done. OVF according […]
Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP’s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses […]
When we came across the embedded version of ESXi in Cannes, but then discovered that it was a pen drive mounted on a USB slot inside the server, we imagined that it was possible to mount the hypervisor on BIOS or on a flash specially mounted on the motherboard and that it would be very […]
At the SNIA event in 2007, we met some new storage realities, which are not so new, but certainly for the standard approaches we are used to with HP, IBM etc regarding the storage of large amounts of data in security and performance and scalability, it is a revolutionary approach. The fundamental difference between reliable, […]
Microsoft technologies for virtualization ASI Polo Scientifico-Didattico di Forlì Windows 2008 On May 29th in the Mazzini room of the ASI Scientific Pole of the University of Forlì, Microsoft with their most famous speakers (e.g. Piergiorgio Malusardi) presented a seminar on its 360° virtualization solutions. The seminar lasted a whole day from 10.00 to 17.00, […]
Taking advantage of the opportunities born from VMworld 2008 in Cannes while we visited the HP booth and talked about storage and blade systems with the very kind Kyle Fitze – Director, Product Marketing Storage Area Networks StorageWorks Division Barry Sinclair – Hp BladeSystem Platform Marketing Infrastructure Product Manager we have climbed all the commercial […]