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March 16, 2007  3:43 PM

Xen, meet Qlusters



Posted by: Alex Barrett
Uncategorized, Virtualization management, Xen

When two qlever, xany technologies meet, who knows what can happen? On Monday, Qlusters, which makes the open source OpenQRM server provisioning and monitoring software, will add official support for Xen, the open-source virtual machine monitor used by XenSource, Red Hat, Novell and...

March 8, 2007  12:39 PM

Veeam reports on ESX



Posted by: Alex Barrett
Uncategorized, Virtualization management, VMware

I just had a chat with Veeam Software's Ratmir Timashev about the release of their first commercial product, Veeam Reporter for VMware Infrastructure 3. The Russian company may already be known to some of you for its free tools -- Veeam FastSCP, which administrators can use for backup or to...


March 7, 2007  1:11 AM

P2V blues: Physical-to-virtual migration mishaps



Posted by: Jan Stafford
P2V, Uncategorized, VMware

While researching P2V migrations, I came across some discussions of problems encountered during the process. Dave Mast, Geek at Large, learned this lesson about P2V migrations and shared it on his blog: "This Tuesday we attempted a P2V...


March 7, 2007  12:53 AM

The debut of Virtual Iron 3.5 – Hype or Huzzah?



Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran, Virtual Iron, Virtualization platforms, Xen

From Virtual Iron's Website:

"Virtual Iron Software (www.virtualiron.com), a provider of server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software solutions, today announced the general availability of Version 3.5 of its...


March 7, 2007  12:42 AM

A Parallels Universe



Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz, Application virtualization

I am (was) the unofficial Microsoft Entourage support person for my organization.  Susie Q. is having a problem with Entourage losing her e-mail, "Call Andrew" her office-mate would say.  Those days are no more.  I now use Outlook 2007 on my Mac and let users know that until the next version of...


March 5, 2007  12:36 PM

Windows Server virtualization calculator



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Servers, Virtual machine, Virtualization management

I was doing some blog-surfing the other day and came across Christian Saborio's virtualization blog. He mentions this really cool tool published by Microsoft that helps IT directors figure out costs of...


February 26, 2007  8:01 PM

Virtualization security: The dark side of the force



Posted by: Jan Stafford
Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtualization security

Thomas Ptacek writes about two ways virtualization complicates life for systems security people in his blog entry, Dark Reading on Virtualization Security. First of all, he says, "you now face the spectre of...


February 22, 2007  9:09 PM

Database in the (virtual) machine



Posted by: Alex Barrett
Virtual machine, Virtualization strategies

This week, Microsoft revamped pricing for SQL Server 2005 whereby "Enterprise Edition" customers can run unlimited instances of SQL Server within virtual machines of any denomination -- VMware, Microsoft Virtual...