The options for firms buying server virtualization tools opened up enormously following the launch of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 about one year ago. Later this month the Microsoft will release Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. This update adds some vital functions, notably Live Migration, which will force many IT organizations to ask themselves why they are [...]

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Hoping to build on the success of VMware’s vCloud initiative, configuration control specialist Tripwire today announced a new tool to help manage virtual server environments running VMware ESX Server. Tripwire’s new vWire tool can either be used as a standalone console or as a plug-in that provides a new tab within the VMware vServer client [...]

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Virtualisation tools specialist Vizioncore announced availability of its vControl multi-hypervisor virtual machine management tool this week.
vControl will turns heads for two reasons. Firstly, it will save time for busy IT staff because it can combine various Windows PowerShell scripts into a workflow to automate complex repetitive tasks, such as commissioning or decommissioning VMs.
vControl is also [...]

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I recently finished a review of Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro 2.1, which has been published on ZDnet. The suite will be a great help to many IT managers because it automatically adjusts the size of the virtual hard disks of VMs running Windows and hosted on VMware ESX Server.
As we reported earlier, several third party utilities [...]

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Launched on September 4th, vReplicator 2.1 is the latest version of Vizioncore’s virtual machine replication suite. Previously called esxReplicator 2.0, the update is a good choice for firms that want to create and maintain replicas of their virtual machines (VMs) that are ready to run on secondary servers just in case something goes wrong with [...]

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Vizioncore vCharter Pro is designed to help VMware ESX Server administrators manage the utilisation of system resources such as RAM, CPU and disk allocations. It monitors resources used by ESX Server systems and also of the VMs they are running. If you’ve seen its predecessor, vCharter, it’s important to understand that vCharter Pro is not [...]

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Launched last November, Virtual Machine Manager 2007 is part of Microsoft’s System Center suite of datacentre management tools. Although the current version can manage only virtual machines (VMs) running on Microsoft Virtual Server, a forthcoming update, due by the end of the year, will also manage VMs running on VMware ESX Server and XenSource systems, [...]

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Virtualisation specialist VMware today announced details of the forthcoming VMware Server 2. Like its predecessor, the new suite is designed to run on Linux and Windows hosts is available free of charge. A beta version of Server 2 is available for immediate download from VMware by clicking on this link.
Highlights of the new release include [...]

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Online replication specialist Double-Take told The Hypervisor this week that it plans to launch a version of its online replication suite to support Microsoft’s forthcoming Hyper-V hypervisor, which is expected to launched about six months after Windows Server 2008, due next spring. While such a move would surprise nobody, news that Double-Take has no plans [...]

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Disaster recovery specialist FalconStor today launched its first Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware.
The new suite works with VMware ESX Server 3.x., and deployment should be extremely easy as the suite is supplied as a pre-configured and ready to run virtual machine, complete with it’s own operating system.
The suite works by monitoring both [...]

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