Entries from September 2007

Double-Take plans new hypervisor support

News 26th September

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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Vizioncore announces support for Microsoft hypervisor

News 12th September

Vizioncore chief executive David Bieneman told The Hypervisor this week about his company’s plans to support virtualisation products from Microsoft and Citrix. Currently the Vizioncore product range works with servers running VMware ESX Server. However, in a move that reflects the growing interest in other virtualisation systems, Bieneman said forthcoming versions of Vizioncore tools would […]

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VMware announces slew of new products at VMworld

News 12th September

Virtualisation specialist VMware announced three major new products at its VMworld conference in San Francisco earlier this week. Top of the list is a new venture with server hardware vendors such as Dell, IBM and HP, which will see the hardware vendors marketing servers that come with the VMware ESX Server hypervisor supplied in Flash […]

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FalconStor launches continuous data protection for ESX Server

News 6th September

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 […]

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Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1 available for download

Lab Notes 4th September

We’ve now downloaded and installed our copy of Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1 from this link. The installation package has grown in size somewhat since the previous release. The version 2 download package was under 6MB, while the latest version is a whopping 63.3MB. Of course, some of the new features account for much of the increase […]

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Vizioncore upgrade looks beyond VMware ESX Server

News 3rd September

Virtualisation tool vendor Vizioncore today released the latest version of its virtual server replication suite. The suite enables system administrators to maintain replicas of virtual machines on secondary servers so the replicas are instantly ready to run in case of a problem with the original virtual machine. New features in this upgrade include support for […]

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