Posts Tagged ‘ Virtualization ’

Earlier this month Tintri did a survey that asked customers about what challenges they faced with virtualization and more. The full article is can be found here. It was clear from the survey that the most significant hurdles to virtualization expansion were with storage.
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There are a few challenging technical areas that every VDI environment must overcome at some point. I have deployed VMware View 4 with great success and I’m looking forward to deploying VMware View 5 soon. Although the installation of VMware View components is very easy, there are some areas of design that need attention...
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VMware Workstation 8 was recently released and I have finally updated my home lab that previously ran Workstation 7.x on Windows and Fedora. If your like me you have a few workstations setup at home for testing different "Stuff".
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Server virtualization changed the way IT has deployed most of its infrastructure for the last few years. Many companies are adopting a “virtualization first” policy because of all the benefits associated with virtualization. While most applications can be virtualized without any penalty to the application and user experience, there is still a worry about...
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Here is a solution that I have configured, worked with and feel provides an adequate solution for server virtualization in those locations where blade servers are not a good fit. Don't get me wrong I love blade servers but from a cost model they don't always make financial sense to buy costly infrastructure if...
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I am sure that I'm not the only one out there that has gone thru this but scenario. A user has application performance issues. Initial consensus is to do what? You guessed it, buy new server hardware for the database to fix the problem. After migrating to the new hardware guess what? You guessed...
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I wanted to do a post of my initial experiences with the deployment and management of VMware View 4.6. I have used VMware server virtualization for years and in the past month had a need and opportunity to deploy VMware View for production use. The scenario was that we currently had Xendesktop deployed for...
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Video overview of citrix xenserver
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VMware Fusion 3.1.1 is a FREE update for all VMware Fusion 3 users. Highlights of VMware Fusion 3.1.1 are: VMware vSphere 4.1 is now supported as a guest operating system Resolves issue around accessing some iSight cameras
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Vmware has announced the release of vSphere 4.1. This is not a major version release but there are some major features being released in this .1 version. The list of new updates and feature are long so will go some of the most important or note worthy.
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