2012” plus 4 more

Citrix Summer University 2 - 6/8/2012
Release: Veeam Backup Free Edition and Veeam Backup & Replication v6.1
Red Hat CTO to Deliver Keynote at LinuxCon Japan 2012
Microsoft talks about Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 RC
Red Hat Training Puts Exam Scheduling Power Into Customers' Hands

Citrix Summer University 2 - 6/8/2012

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:59 PM PDT

Citrix Summer University 2 - 6/8/2012

Release: Veeam Backup Free Edition and Veeam Backup & Replication v6.1

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT

Today Veeam Software announced the general availability of Veeam Backup Free Edition, the successor of its free backup tool FastSCPTM, in conjunction with the release of version 6.1 of its disaster recovery solution, Backup & Replication.

Veeam Backup Free Edition, that combines well with Veeam One Free Edition released in April, includes the following features:

VeeamZIP™: Ad-hoc backup of a running VM for operational, archival or portability purposes. For example, admins can now back up a VM before applying patches, create an archive copy of a VM, or copy a VM to a remote test lab—without powering off the production VM.

Instant File-Level Recovery: Restore individual guest files directly from an image-level backup.

File Manager: Easily manage VM and host files.

Quick Migration for VMware: Migrate a running VM to any host or datastore—even if you don't use clusters or shared storage.

Regarding Veeam Backup & Replication, release 6.1 introduces the following new capabilities:

vPower® and Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V: Enables IT to boot and run a VM directly from a compressed, deduped backup file, in a matter of minutes, so business can continue undisrupted during the restore of the VM back into the production environment.

SCVMM 2012 Support: Extends support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. SCVMM support streamlines discovery and ensures protection of VMs managed by SCVMM.

Updated UI and Additional Enhancements: Designed based on user requests and Veeam R&D innovation. The updated UI is an evolution, not a complete re-design. Current users will still be able to use all of their existing jobs, settings and the workflow for the wizards has not changed.

Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 is available now. North American pricing (MSRP) is $1,099 USD per CPU socket for Enterprise Edition and $699 USD for Standard Edition. For more information, or to download a free 30-day trial, visit:http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html.

Labels: backup, Disaster Recovery, Releases, Veeam

Red Hat CTO to Deliver Keynote at LinuxCon Japan 2012

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:00 PM PDT

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

Microsoft talks about Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 RC

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 07:31 AM PDT

Last week Ben Armstrong, Senior Program Manager Lead at Microsoft, published a post on his MSDN Blog that gathers all the official links related to Hyper-V on the RC version of Windows Server 2012.

Among all the documents, coming from Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform site and the Technet Library, you can find and interesting comparison guide between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 RC which unveils all the new features with the following classification:

More Secure Multitenancy
Flexible Infrastructure
Scale, Performance, and Density
High Availability
Processor and Memory Support
Network
Storage
Manageability

Here you can find all the links:

Over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform site we have:

Hyper-V Comparison Guide

This document steps you through the differences between Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Hyper-V on the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate

Competitive Advantages of Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V

Goes through and looks at how Hyper-V on the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate is stacking up against VMware.

Meanwhile – on our TechNet Library we have:

Hyper-V Replica Deployment Guide

This steps you through everything you need to know to get Hyper-V Replica up and running

Configure and Use Live Migration Without Failover Clustering for Server Availability

Tells you everything that you need to know to live migrate a virtual machine without a cluster