Virtualization by Davis: “Release: Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server 1.0” plus 3 more

Release: Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server 1.0
Citrix announces XenClient 4.5 Technology Preview and releases XenClient XT 3
Microsoft announces previews of Windows Azure HDInsight Service and HDInsight Server for Windows
Paper: Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and HP 3PAR best practices and reference architecture

Release: Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server 1.0

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 AM PDT

Microsoft last week announced the release of version 1.0 of the Service Bus for Windows Server. The Service Bus for Windows Server provides Windows Azure Service Bus messaging capabilities on Windows Server allowing customers to build, test and run message-driven applications in self-managed environments and on developer computers.

By releasing this component which works the same as the component in Azure, Microsoft makes it easier for companies leveraging the technology to later decide to host the application using the Service Bus to Windows Azure. The Service Bus is able to replace other so called Message Queuing (MQ) applications.

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Labels: Microsoft, Releases

Citrix announces XenClient 4.5 Technology Preview and releases XenClient XT 3

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:18 AM PDT

Citrix has announced the availability of a Technology Preview for XenClient 4.5, the next version of its Client Hypervisor and the release of XenClient XT 3 a version of XenClient which supports advanced levels of security and isolation. Version 4.5 of XenClient will be the follow-up of version 4.1 which was released in July this year and is expected to be released in December this year, and XenClient XT 3 will be the follow-up of version 2.1 released in October 2011.

The XenClient 4.5 features builds further after the technology integration of the NxTop client hypervisor which Citrix integrated after the acquisition of Virtual Computer in May this year.

XenClient 4.5. provides the following new features:

Support for multiple ultrabooks and 3rd generation Intel vPro processors.
Windows 8 Support
Client support in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese
Management Support in English, German and Simplified Chinese
VLAN tagging
External network synchronization using NetScaler allowing external users to securely access the Synchronizer for XenClient from remote locations
30% boot time performance improvement
Dual external monitors in a docking station support
New display architecture allowing for configuration of individual monitor screen locations and resolutions.
VM export support

The download of the Technical Preview is available for existing XenClient, XenDesktop Enterprise and XenDesktop Platinum customers having Subscription Advantage contracts here.

XenClient XT3 will provide the following new features:

Management Synchronizer (Synchronizer XT) to perform updates and control VM policies remotely, which works independent.
Isolation of physical network devices into predetermined direct VMs
An Software Development Kit (SDK) allowing 3rd parties to develop and distribute Linux Service VM appliances
Support for 2nd and 3rd generation Intel vPro processors
SSL and SELinux enhancements
PL3 and PL4 government compliance

Labels: Beta, Citrix, Release

Microsoft announces previews of Windows Azure HDInsight Service and HDInsight Server for Windows

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:10 AM PDT

Last week Microsoft announced a new preview of both the Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.

HDInsight delivers Apache Hadoop compatibility, which is a open source platform and provides a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets (so called big data) across clusters of computers using simple programming models and is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.

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Paper: Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and HP 3PAR best practices and reference architecture

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:52 AM PDT

HP has released a paper titled:"Microsoft SC-VMM 2012 and HP 3PAR best practices and reference architecture". The paper which contains 47 pages describes the use of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to discover and manage HP 3PAR Storage using the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) management protocol.

Microsoft Partners who want their array and SMI-S provider to be supported by VMM, need to complete validation using a test harness and publish a best-practice document that captures the configuration of VMM, storage array, and SMI-S provider. This paper is HPs validation of the solution and also captures best practices, software and hardware configuration, limitations, and known issues and is intended for HP 3PAR customers who want to start using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.