Virtualization by Davis: “Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for April 2012” plus 5 more

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• Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for April 2012
• Technotes: Troubleshooting Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop
• Technotes: Error: Citrix Presentation Server License Acquisition Error (-13): Unable to Acquire a License from the Server.
• IBM and Red Hat officially join OpenStack
• Microsoft releases beta of Virtual Machine Converter Tool
• HP, IBM and RedHat confirm their commitment to OpenStack

Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for April 2012 Posted: 13 Apr 2012 01:32 PM PDT Technotes: Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report for April 2012 Update feed preferences Microsoft april, 2012 Security Patch Validation Report       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Technotes: Troubleshooting Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop Posted: 13 Apr 2012 04:06 AM PDT Technotes: Troubleshooting Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop Update feed preferences Troubleshooting Virtual Desktop Agent Registration with Controllers in XenDesktop       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Technotes: Error: Citrix Presentation Server License Acquisition Error (-13): Unable to Acquire a License from the Server. Posted: 13 Apr 2012 12:59 AM PDT Technotes: Error: Citrix Presentation Server License Acquisition Error (-13): Unable to Acquire a License from the Server. Update feed preferences This article describes how to resolve the License acquisition error after a License server migration, which can be caused by unsynchronized licenses       (more) Products & Solutions | Support | Communities | News | Events | My Citrix (c) 2012 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

IBM and Red Hat officially join OpenStack Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:38 PM PDT As anticipated, IBM and Red Hat will join OpenStack Foundation as Platinum members. Other big names at the same level are AT&T, Canonical, Hewlett-Packard, Nebula, Rackspace and SUSE. Cisco, Cloudscaling, Dell, Dreamhost, Morphlabs, Netapp and Piston Cloud Computing are also joining the foundation as Gold members. Citrix, which was an OpenStack supporter, is not mentioned in any announcement of the foundation despite its employees are still working with OpenStack on Xen hypervisor support. Platinum Members will fund $500,000 per year (paid annually) with a three year commitment. Governance documents will allow Platinum Members to withdraw from Board and funding obligation if Foundation changes its mission. Gold Members will fund an amount equal to total company revenue times .025%, with a minimum of $50k and a maximum of $200k. In addition to the funding commitment, Platinum Members will provide operational resources to the Foundation such as staffing or development environment infrastructure. Resource requirements will be developed in more detail by the drafting committee, but the general expectation is a resource commitment that is consistent with staffing two full time equivalents. According to the foundation wiki. We suggest to read the article published on Gigaom. Labels: IBM, OpenStack, Red Hat

Microsoft releases beta of Virtual Machine Converter Tool Posted: 13 Apr 2012 08:22 AM PDT Microsoft has announced the availability of a the beta of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Tool (MVMC), which is able to convert VMware Virtual Machines to the Microsoft Hyper-V standard. The tool is provided as a so called solution provider. Unfortunately the tool doesn't support Windows Server 8 yet, but Microsoft states that it's working on supporting Windows Server 8 in the near future. The tool can convert VM's and VMware Virtual Disks (VMDKs) from vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, uninstalling the VMware tools and installing the Hyper-V integration services while converting. It also supports offline conversion from VMDK to the Microsoft VHD format. MVMC also includes a Command Line Interface (CLI) to do the conversions. The following guest Operating Systems are supported: Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Labels: Microsoft

HP, IBM and RedHat confirm their commitment to OpenStack Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT As a reaction to the submission of CloudStack Software to Apache Software Foundation announced last week by Citrix, the other vendors publicly reinforce their commitment to OpenStack project. HP is the last one to renew its support confirming that Openstack will be the center of its upcoming public, private and hybrid cloud implementations. According to an HP white paper, the new HP Compute Cloud service: is built on OpenStack's open source operating environment and enhanced with unique HP technology … HP Cloud Compute provides you with the software, control panels, and APIs required to run instances and manage your own compute cloud. In addition, HP Cloud Compute supports a variety of standard hardware configurations, and benefits from the KVM hypervisor technology. Red Hat and IBM are also ready to give their support to OpenStack, an official announce, according to GigaOm, will be done at the OpenStack Spring Conference. For a platform like OpenStack, that many define as "immature" at this stage, is strategic to have such big names as endorser, on the other side for the big players OpenStack is the weapon (together with the previously mentioned CloudStack) to face Amazon Web Services and VMware's proprietary tool sets. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: Gartner, HP, IBM, OpenStack, Red Hat

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