Virtualization by Davis: “Technotes: How to Configure Link Redundancy Using a Failover Interface Set” plus 13 more

Technotes: How to Configure Link Redundancy Using a Failover Interface Set
Skinning with the Citrix Mobile Application SDK
Why client hypervisor technology won't solve the offline VDI problem
Cloud-hosted virtual desktop pros and cons
What's new in VMware View 5.1: Integration, storage, endpoint support
Why VMware's software-defined data center isn't ready for prime time
Survey: The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2012
Release: Eucalyptus Systems Eucalyptus 3.2
Release: Xen Cloud Platform 1.6
System Center Blogs: Now on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
Fedora Beta Release for Version 18, "Spherical Cow", Now Available
Red Hat Delivers Industry’s First Comprehensive, Open On-Premise Platform-as-a-Service Offering for Enterprises
Red Hat Expands Platform-as-a-Service Ecosystem with Extension of Partner Program
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Technotes: How to Configure Link Redundancy Using a Failover Interface Set

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 03:34 AM PST

Technotes: How to Configure Link Redundancy Using a Failover Interface Set

This article describes how to configure the NetScaler appliances in a High Availability setup with redundant Switches to protect against Switch outages. (more)

Skinning with the Citrix Mobile Application SDK

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:10 PM PST

Check out our new Citrix Mobile Application SDK skinning sample that shows you how to change the appearance of your mobilized Windows apps to mimic the native look and feel of your users' client device.

Why client hypervisor technology won't solve the offline VDI problem

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 11:48 AM PST

If you want offline VDI, client hypervisor technology may not be the best medicine.

Cloud-hosted virtual desktop pros and cons

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 11:31 AM PST

Desktop as a Service has its benefits, but you should understand its challenges before going down the hosted virtual desktop road.

What's new in VMware View 5.1: Integration, storage, endpoint support

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:21 AM PST

VMware View 5.1 offers View Storage Accelerator and support for more types of endpoints. Even point upgrades can deliver surprising enhancements.

Why VMware's software-defined data center isn't ready for prime time

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:29 AM PST

VMware envisions a software-defined data center running all commodity hardware, but its current SDDC product offering falls short on several fronts.

Survey: The Great Big Hyper-V Survey of 2012

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 02:23 PM PST

Three Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Hans Vredevoort, Aidan Finn and Damian Flynn are conducting a research on Hyper-V adoption. The goal of the survey is to gain insight about if people have learned about Windows Server 2012 and its included Hypervisor Hyper-V 3.0 and System Center. The survey also want to know who is using them, if people are planning on using them and how they are intending to use the products.

You can participate in the survey by filling out 72 questions available here, the survey is available until December 1st. The results will be posted shortly after that.

In 2011, this group also conducted a survey which is still available for download here.

Labels: Microsoft, Survey

Release: Eucalyptus Systems Eucalyptus 3.2

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 03:49 AM PST

Eucalyptus Systems has released version 3.2 of its management platform for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. This release is the follow up of version 3.1 which was released in June this year.

Eucalyptus Systems initially started out providing an open source management system called Eucalyptus, for virtual infrastructures that supports KVM. Nowadays Eucalyptus is providing management of Xen, KVM and VMware virtual environments using Amazon specification for EC2, S3, EBS, and IAM and is capable of running several Windows OS's en Linux Distributions. The product is provided for free and using a paid annual subscription providing support.

CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO…

Labels: Eucalyptus Systems, Release

Release: Xen Cloud Platform 1.6

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 12:14 PM PST

After releasing the first beta in October this year, the Xen community today released version 1.6 of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), a cloud management platform. XCP includes the Xen Hypervisor, the enterprise ready Xen API toolstack and integrations for cloud, storage and networking solutions.The Xen Hypervisor serves as a basis for commercial products like Oracle VM and Citrix XenServer and is in use at cloudproviders such as Amazon and Rackspace.

Since the Xen Community released version 1.0 in March 2011 a lot of features have been added as can be seen in the XCP Release Features comparison matrix.

CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO…

Labels: Release, Xen

System Center Blogs: Now on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 10:22 AM PST

If you liked the original System Center Blogs app that was published last year for Windows Phone and Android, you'll be happy to know that both apps have now been updated, plus there is a new version now available for iOS. The updates include bug fixes and feature additions as well as a current list of blogs that includes the major official Microsoft System Center related properties.

As before, these are apps I created via AppMakr (no affiliation) with the intention of simply making it easier for IT pros to keep up with all the latest news and information we publish regarding System Center, WSUS and our MDOP virtualization products. If you're interested in more of the history and background behind this you can read about that in the original post here, but if you want to skip all that and jump straight to loading them up and checking them out you can do a simple search for System Center via your phone or you can view them on the web using the links below:

Enjoy!

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Management and Security Division

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