VMware’s vision of cloud computing is one step nearer following news that USA hosting specialist iland opened a datacenter in London and launched a range of hosting offerings for virtual servers.
Dante Orsini, iland’s Channel Director, told The Hypervisor iland had struck a partnership with virtualization tools specialist Vizioncore that combines Vizioncore’s vReplicator software with disaster [...]

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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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Deployments of Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 are set to sky rocket following the launch of Hyper-V 2008 R2, which we expect will be announced by Microsoft next week. Last month the Redmond software giant delivered a prelease version of Hyper-V 2008 R2 to third party developers for testing, which suggests the software is nearly ready for [...]

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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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Last week VMware released update 4 of its ESX hypervisor. The upgrade includes several new or updated components that many users will want. But VMware has also removed some vital functionality that could leave users of its free ESXi hypervisor stranded.
For example, the PowerShell interface has been switched to what VMware calls “read only” mode.
PowerShell [...]

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Tests in The Hypervisor lab show that although VMware ESXi is extremely quick and easy to deploy, it currently lacks support by several leading third-party tools.
ESXi is the embedded version of VMware’s industry leading ESX Server hypervisor. ESXi is often stored on a Flash memory module fitted in the server chassis. This enables vendors such [...]

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Microsoft Windows and Office software licenses are likely to be the most expensive elements in any virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) roll-out, according to The Hypervisor research.
VDI systems replace traditional PCs with virtual machines running desktop software. Each user has their own dedicated virtual machine (VM), and users connect to their VM using one of several [...]

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Last week VMware showed some impressive hypervisor benchmark figures at the VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes. The numbers suggest it makes more sense to run applications like Microsoft Exchange or Oracle databases in a virtual machine than on physical servers.
VMware says this is because such enterprise applications are not designed to run efficiently as [...]

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Having seen a demonstration of how an iPhone could be used to manage virtual machines at last year’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas, I was disappointed that VMware executives didn’t have any news on the matter at this week’s VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes.
However, when I asked VMware vice president of emerging products, Dan Chu, [...]

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