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Storage vMotion vs SAN Replication
Virtualization Info - 2 hours 12 min ago
Duncan Epping at Yellow Bricks yesterday posted a brief but very interesting article about the best approach to pursue when a company is about to replace its SAN arrays: Storage vMotion or SAN Replication.
Epping breaks down the pros and cons of both approaches:
SAN Replication
- Can utilize Array based copy mechanisms for fast replication (+)
- Per LUN migration, high level of concurrency (+)
- Old volumes still available (+)
- Need to resignature or mount the volume again (-)
- A resignature also means you will need to reregister the VM! (-)
- Downtime for the VM during the cut over (-)
Storage vMotion
- No downtime for your VMs (+)
- Fast Storage vMotion when your Array supports vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) (+)
- If your Array doesn’t support VAAI migrations can be slow (-)
- Induced cost if VAAI isn’t supported (-)
- Only intra Array not across arrays (-)
- No resignaturing or re-registering needed (+)
- Per VM migration (-)
- Limited concurrency (2 per host, 8 per VMFS volume) (-)
Labels: VMware
Categories: Virtualization News
Virtual Computer appoints its SVP of Marketing
Virtualization Info - 2 hours 19 min ago
The US startup Virtual Computer earlier this week announced its new Senior Vice President of Marketing: Andrew McKay.
McKay is the co-founder and former Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Attivio, a software company focused on enterprise search solutions.
From 2002 to 2006 McKay has been the Vice President of Sales, Technical Sales and Product Marketing at Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), acquired by Microsoft in early 2008.
Labels: Leadership, Virtual Computer
Categories: Virtualization News
Things You Should Know About Windows Profile Management
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
You are an IT professional and you want to learn about the general concepts behind Windows user profile management before introducing Immidio Flex Profiles to your corporate IT environment? Immidio provides a technical whitepaper that helps you with this....
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Today's New Virtualization Related Community Videos - July 29th, 2010
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
The following new virtualization related videos we added to the DABCC Community Video show where we try to find the best new virtualization videos on the net so you dont have to: VMware View (VMware VDI) - Give Users a High Performance Virtual Desktop Experience, VMware View (VMware VDI) - Securely Deliver Virtual Desktops as a Managed Service, VMware View 4 overview, VMware View (VMware VDI) - Standardize on a Single Platform, Five Steps on the Journey from Virtualization to Cloud....
Categories: Virtualization News
Cisco UCS Implementation In 30 Days? VAR Makes It Happen
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
World Wide Technology, a solution provider and early adopter of Cisco's UCS technology, put its experience to good use in a deployment to help a radiology services provider store and migrate about 10,000 radiological images a day....
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The PC Is Not Dead: Long Live PCs
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
It seems like once a year an article or blog gets posted re-igniting the debate on the future of computing devices. Because I often speak about the future of technology, the topic is of great interest to me ? especially when it comes to the future of PCs....
Categories: Virtualization News
LiquidwareLabs ProfileUnity ? Part 2
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
As promised, more info on ProfileUnity. Before the first part was published I contacted LiquidwareLabs to verify my findings, it's only fair to check with them. ...
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Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
In another blog, I discussed Windows 7 services that you might wish to disable when going down the path of desktop virtualization. In this article, I'm now focusing on registry modification you will want to make to optimize Windows 7 for virtual desktops. I've broken it down into Recommended configurations, Standard Mode configurations (for Provisioning services), and Optional configurations....
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Compellent Fluid Data Storage and VMware vSphere 4.1 Provide Self-Managing, Next-Generation Cloud Computing
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
Compellent announced the integration and certification of its Fluid Data storage platforms with VMware vSphere 4.1, the latest version of the award-winning VMware virtualisation platform. VMware vSphere 4.1 offers dramatic scalability and performance enhancements with new management capabilities to deliver the most powerful foundation for cloud infrastructures....
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Citrix XenClient Masterclass series starting August 19th
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
Analysts are predicting that by 2014 over 70% of corporate endpoints are going to be laptop devices. Users are demanding more flexibility in where and how the work, network connectivity is slowly becoming more ubiquitous and laptops are becoming increasingly personal. For IT, this can create a number of issues - valuable corporate data simply gets up and walks out of the office, users want to install their own applications and data causing conflicts and support calls, backups are are difficult ...
Categories: Virtualization News
WA Roads Drives Hyper-V into Production
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
A year after betting on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation platform, Main Roads Western Australia is looking to consolidate its server infrastructure and exploit better disaster recovery....
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Virtualization Management: Rush In Too Fast and You'll Crash
DABCC Virtualization Feed - 8 hours 27 min ago
You wouldn't race down the motorway the day after you've passed your driving exam. You need to mature: learn the basics, build up your experience, and plan ahead. Virtualization is no different. Almost every organization is rushing headlong to deploy the technology, create the building blocks for cloud computing, and capitalize on the advantages of agility, cost, quality, and risk....
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Enterprise-Grade Virtualization Management Now Available for Xen and KVM
VM Blog - 9 hours 14 min ago
Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Read more at VMblog.com.
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Citrix Reports Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results
VM Blog - 9 hours 22 min ago
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. FINANCIAL RESULTS In the second... Read more at VMblog.com.
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Enterprise-Grade Virtualization Management Now Available for Xen and KVM
DABCC Virtualization Feed - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:57
Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp....
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BYOC - What Does It Mean For The Industry?
DABCC Virtualization Feed - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:57
As I travel from event to event, I've begun to notice a pattern. Attendees tell me that they're using a device such as a computer, an internet tablet, a netbook or a smartphone that they themselves purchased rather than using a company-supplied device. This trend is known as "bring your own computer" or BYOC. The "C" by the way could be a desktop computer, a laptop, a netbook, an internet tablet and/or a smartphone....
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Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit 5.0 - Now Released
Xtravirt - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:40
After a couple of beta's, I’m pleased to say, a few days back the product was shipped and is available to download here
Categories: Virtualization News
VMware Increases Security Offering to Prepare Security for the Cloud
Cloud Computing News - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15
Earlier this month VMware announced two new variants of its vShield Zones (formerly VirtualShield) virtual firewall: vShield App 1.0 and vShield Edge 1.0, both available now as beta....
Categories: Cloud Computing News
Amazon CTO counters skepticism on cloud security
Cloud Computing News - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15
Amazon's cloud computing division is planning to "raise the bar" on security, and provide better security than most enterprises can achieve on their own, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels....
Categories: Cloud Computing News
Burton Group Highlights Five Cloud Computing Adoption Steps for CIOs
Cloud Computing News - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 23:15
As cloud computing moves beyond the definition phase into the adoption phase, Burton Group has identified five steps for building a better cloud adoption strategy. These steps go beyond current ad-hoc adoption methods to achieve real business objectives with cloud computing....
Categories: Cloud Computing News
