Virtualisation: Reviews
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Review: Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 24/10/2008 07:50:00
Every UI feature is extensible via PowerShellOn Tuesday, Microsoft released to manufacturing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. The final code will be shipped on November 1. The company bills the software as one-stop organization, allowing administrators to set up and deploy new virtual machines and manage hosts and other virtual infrastructure elements from one console. - +
The virtual winner: VMware's ESX KOs a roughly built Hyper-V package 03/10/2008 10:33:00
VMware wins due to manageability, stability that comes with maturityWhen the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management and security, it all boiled down to two issues: experience and religion. - +
The issue of virtual compatibility 03/10/2008 11:02:00
MS has the hardware support, but VMware supports more operating systemsBoth hypervisors we tested have requirements for the hardware they can run on and the virtual machines they can support. - +
How we tested the virtualization products 03/10/2008 10:57:00
We used the same host platform, an HP DL580 G5 (four-socket, 16-core Intel Xeon CPUs) server – for the qualitative portion of this test as we did in the quantitative portion of our test published earlier this month. - +
Review: Citrix hits the VDI high notes 17/09/2008 08:21:00
Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 leverages streaming applications, server virtualization, and swift tools for a scalable and manageable virtual desktop infrastructure solutionIt seems that the whole world has been talking about VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), with very different views of what VDI actually means. If virtualization itself is an adolescent, VDI is still an infant, and thus there are still plenty of growing pains to come. - +
VMware edges out Microsoft in virtualization performance test 04/09/2008 11:56:00
Hyper-V's bright spot is a set of drivers that help it support Linux VMsWith the recent release of Microsoft's Hyper-V shaking up the hypervisor market, we decided to conduct a two-part evaluation pitting virtualization vendors against each other on performance as well as on features such as usability, management and migration. - +
HADR offerings bring resiliency to virtualization 04/09/2008 08:40:00
We examine five products that marry high availability and disaster recovery to your virtual server environmentVirtualization is becoming increasingly important in the datacenter as a way to respond quickly to the varying server demands. Depending on time of day and day of the week, as well as events in progress and many other factors, loads on any given machine may vary by factors of 100 or 1,000 or more. Giving a server more or less computing power, running multiple instances of the same server for load balancing purposes, or allowing failover from one virtual instance to another are increasingly important capabilities. - +
Parallels Server for Mac underwhelms 08/08/2008 09:46:19
Inexplicably poor support for Mac OS X Server as a guest tops a list of shortcomings that makes Parallels' much-anticipated server virtualization platform a very mixed bagNo 1U, two-socket rack server bests Apple's Xserve in its price range. No two-socket Intel desktop can touch the MacBook Pro for its combination of durability, efficiency, expandability, and quiet operation. - +
Thinstall app virtualization grows up 05/08/2008 08:16:05
VMware ThinApp 4.0 addresses many of Thinstall's shortcomings in manageability and scalabilityA wallflower: That's how I used to describe Thinstall when discussing the movers and shakers of the application virtualization party scene. With its chief competitors already paired off and dancing up a storm, Thinstall looked more and more like the lonesome loser, dateless and stag at the junior prom. - +
Microsoft's Hyper-V does the trick 24/06/2008 09:32:05
Microsoft's next-generation server virtualization solution falls short versus VMware's VI3, but has the right stuff for less demanding, Windows-centric environmentsHyper-V is finally here -- almost. With the recent delivery of Release Candidate 1, Microsoft is shifting from major engineering operations mode to cross-the-i's-and-dot-the-t's mode. The majority of the Hyper-V bits, including an ever-expanding list of supported guest operating systems, are now in place, and Microsoft customers can start migrating their test VMs into preproduction and production roles with a fair degree of confidence.
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Comparing Multi-Core Server Virtualisation
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Implementing Virtualisation in a Global Business-Computing Environment
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