On October 12 The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (Vesi) will release version 1.2 of its free Virtualization EcoShell software.
Focussed on helping people running VMware virtualization, the new suite runs on Windows and includes a graphical editor for handling PowerShell scripts.
The new Virtualization EcoShell editor adds a new integrated search tool to find free PowerShell scripts stored [...]

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Last week Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 to manufacture. This is the free version of Microsoft’s server virtualization engine, and the same updated software is also included in Windows Server 2008 R2, which was also released to manufacturing last week.
Firms could download and install as many copies of the free Hyper-V 2008 R2 as [...]

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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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SAN optimisation specialist Virtual Instruments today launched a new monitoring and optimisation suite for VMware SAN environments.
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Portal Server collects and correlates traffic data from VMware VirtualCenter. The suite can also collect SNMP data from SAN switches and traffic data from Fibre Channel probes connected directly to SAN cabling.
The VirtualWisdom suite of probes [...]

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