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” […]

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Virtualisation management specialist Vizioncore showed a beta version of its vRanger Pro 4 backup suite to attendees at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas today. The new software, which is due to be launched later this year, includes support for Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting language. Scott Herold, chief architect at Vizioncore, said, “We’re very excited about […]

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Continuous availability specialist Neverfail today announced its intention to support Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008. VMM is Microsoft’s equivalent of VMware’s Virtual Center management console. Many people will rely on VMM to manage their virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment consists of multiple components, notably SQL Server, the library service, which requires file […]

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The buzz this week is that the launch of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM2008) is imminent. VMM2008 is part of Microsoft’s System Center management platform, which until now has been focussed on managing Microsoft server systems. However, VMM2008 is set to change all that. Besides managing Microsoft Virtual Server and Hyper-V, it will also integrate […]

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In head to head benchmark tests of Microsoft Hyper-V compared to VMware Workstation, The Hypervisor test results indicate virtual machine (VM) performance using Hyper-V is below that of VMware Workstation. Our tests compared the time taken to install various operating systems into VMs hosted by the two hypervisors. Thus our test results focus on the […]

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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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After years of planning and development, Microsoft made the first supported version of its Hyper-V virtualisation software available for download today. Bill Laing, general manager of the Windows Server Division, told The Hypervisor, “The final release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 will be available for download from 8pm BST tonight. […]

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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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I’ve recently upgraded several systems to use the latest server virtualisation software from VMware. The business needed the upgrade because the new software enabled them to assign more then 3.6GB of RAM and more than two processors to the accountancy system, which runs in a virtual machine (VM) under VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. But while […]

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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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