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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VMware Update Manager v1 comes free with vCenter 2.5 (VC25) and is designed to help IT managers locate and install software patches for ESX Server systems and the Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) running on them. Update Manager (UM) runs as a plugin for VC25, but it is not installed automatically, so a VMware […]

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Virtual desktop infrastructure is set to be the next growth area for IT organisations using virtualisation. The idea is to host users’ desktop systems on virtual server farms, and deliver the desktops using thin-client protocols such as Microsoft RDP or Citrix ICA. The advantage of VDI architecture is better management of the desktop environment. For […]

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Neverfail today announced the launch of Neverfail for VMware VirtualCenter. The new software enables firms to make a real time replica of their VirtualCenter management server. When used in conjunction with VirtualCenter 2.5, the two servers can be linked using normal Internet links, without the need for a VPN connection. John Posavatz, vice-president of product […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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