miércoles, 23 de enero de 2013

Virtualization by Davis: “Release: HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter 2.0” plus 11 more

Virtualization by Davis: “Release: HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter 2.0” plus 11 more


Release: HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter 2.0

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 02:40 AM PST

HotLink has released version 2.0 of its multi virtualization platform management tool SuperVISOR. This version is the follow up of version 1.5 which was released in April last year. SuperVISOR is software which abstracts the virtualization platform from the management tools used to manage them. By using this technology it is possible to manage a hybrid hypervisor environment using a single management tool solution running within VMware vCenter. SuperVISOR is able to manage Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM.

When HotLink announced its product for the first time, it also mentioned that it would supply a plugin for Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Since Microsoft's latest version of SCVMM now already supports multiple virtualization solutions, apparently HotLink decided to stop the efforts to offer a solution for SCVMM.

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Version 2.0 provides the following new features:

  • Support for vCloud Director and PowerCLI
  • Support for Amazon EC2
  • Support for vCenter 5.1 and Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0

HotLink is now also available in a free edition, supporting three hosts and fifteen VM's.



Labels: HotLink, Release

Release: CiRBA 7.2

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 02:44 AM PST

CiRBA has announced the release of version 7.2 of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. Control Console is one of the components of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution, providing Control and Automation. The CiRBA Control Console is provided for VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and IBM PowerVM running on AIX. CiRBA also provides a Transformation tool which helps modeling server and data center transformations. Both the Control Console and the Transformation tool leverage the CiRBA's Analytics Engine.

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Version 7.2 introduces Dynamic Transformation Planning enabling users to analyze infrastructure for cloud migration and hardware refresh opportunities. Users can drag and drop existing VMs and hosts onto new target platforms or environments to assess the suitability and impact of a change.

Also introduced is a Storage Sensor which when activated provides visibility into used and provisioned datastore capacity status for VMware environments.



Labels: CiRBA, Release

Release: Oracle VM 3.2

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 02:37 AM PST

Oracle has released version 3.2 of its enterprise virtualization solution. Oracle has rebranded the until now separate releases of Oracle VM Server for x86 and Oracle VM Server for SPARC into a new combined release Oracle VM. From this release forward Oracle VM Manager can now manage both Oracle VM server running on x86 and VM Server running on SPARC based servers.

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Version 3.2 provides the following new features:

  • Ability to manage both VM Server for x86 as VM Server for SPARC from VM Manager
  • Ability to deploy assemblies and templates on Oracle VM Server for SPARC. (already available for x86)
  • Support for using MySQL as the repository
  • Create non-clustered server pools with up to 64 servers when using NFS based storage
  • Support for up to 160 physical CPUs and 4 TB of memory on x86
  • Support for 128 vCPUs and 2 TB of memory for guest VMs
  • Multipath support for iSCSI
  • 10 GbE Network Performance improvements
  • Latest versions of the Xen Hypervisor and Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
  • Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) using SSH
  • Health monitoring tab, reporting about the health of pools, servers and virtual machines
  • Heartbeat interval tuning when using clustering
  • SNMP Support
  • Monitor and control of recurring operations
  • NTP Management
  • Ability to send a message into a Oracle VM guest using the VM guest additions
  • Serial Console Access to guest VM
  • VM auto placement on startup, depending on resource availability
  • Object tagging, Search and Filter in VM Manager
  • Multi-select for parrallel and bulk operations.


Labels: Oracle, Release

Will the new Hyper-V extensible virtual switch change the VM security game?

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 11:56 AM PST

Windows Server 2012's new extensible virtual switch opens the door for agentless antivirus products – and that could change the virtual security game.

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Citrix VDI-in-a-Box V5.2 runs with Hyper-V ’12 and Citrix Cloud Gateway

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 09:57 AM PST

Version V5.2 is now ready for prime time.  The focus of this release was to support the latest hypervisors and Citrix components.   Actually we did a lot more because we added a few features that our users have been clamoring for.   Support for the latest hypervisors: As always we need to stay current and so version 5.2 supports vSphere 5.1, XenServer 6.1 and Microsoft…

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KB: Keepass.exe fails to synchronize settings with Microsoft User Experience Virtualization 1.0 (UE-V 1.0)

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 09:24 AM PST

toolsignHere's an issue we've seen a time or two here in support so I thought it would be worth a mention in case any of you happen to run across it. What happens is that Keepass.exe fails to synchronize settings with Microsoft User Experience Virtualization 1.0 (UE-V 1.0) enabled and crashes on launch.  An error similar to the following will be reported in the Application log:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: Application Crashing Events
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
Description:
Faulting application name: KeePass.exe, version: 2.20.1.0, time stamp: 0x506d455e
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18015, time stamp: 0x50b8479b
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0000000000009e5d
Faulting process id: 0x544
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdef9d0028ee0a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\KeePass2x\KeePass.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 3dff0aaa-5b90-11e2-bb4e-005056c00008
Faulting package full name: %14
Faulting package-relative application ID: %15

A UE-V debug (ETL) trace will show a pattern similar to the following:

03:43:05.689 01-10-2013 11 1348 10232 16 2013-Jan-10 20:43:05.689 - Orchestrator: [10232]: INFO: An updated settings data package was not found to import for settings location template KeePass.
...
03:43:05.689 01-10-2013 2 1348 5540 16 2013-Jan-10 20:43:05.690 - AppAgent: [5540]: SCOPE: <-- SyncSettingsFromCentralStoreToLocalStore() [Settings successfully imported]
03:43:05.689 01-10-2013 2 1348 5540 16 2013-Jan-10 20:43:05.690 - AppAgent: [5540]: INFO: Calling monitored application's main entry point.
03:43:05.767 01-10-2013 102 4636 10872 0 The Agent Driver trapped the start of process WerFault.exe (ID 9752).

This crash occurs because UE-V and Keepass.exe both attempt to load different versions of the .Net runtime into the same process space when the UE-V agent DLL is injected in to the Keepass.exe process.

To resolve this issue, complete the following steps:

1. Open Notepad.exe in an elevated context by right-clicking on a shortcut to Notepad and choosing Run as administrator....

2. Select File\New... and create or edit a file named keepass.exe.config in the same folder as Keepass.exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\KeePass Password Safe 2 by default). Be sure to remove the .txt extension.

3. Copy and paste the following lines into keepass.exe.config.  If the file already exists, change the <startup> tag to <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
  <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" />
  <supportedRuntime version="v2.0.50727" />
</startup>
<runtime>
  <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
   <dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity name="KeePass"
     publicKeyToken="fed2ed7716aecf5c"
     culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="2.0.9.0-2.20.0.0"
     newVersion="2.20.0.18622" />
   </dependentAssembly>
  </assemblyBinding>
  <enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false" />
  <loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true" />
</runtime>
</configuration>

4. Save the file and exit Notepad.

5. Re-launch Keepass.exe.

This crash occurs because UE-V and the process that UE-V is trying to inject its monitoring and management DLL in to are both compiled to use the .Net Runtime 2.0.5, but reference different builds of the runtime.  Adding the useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy tag to the executable's .config file allows the program to successfully load despite this incompatibility.  This is a relatively rare error that has only been experienced with the KeePass.exe executable, but it is possible that other .Net applications may witness the same behavior.  To diagnose that you are in this state, verify that the process you are investigating is generating Application log event 1000 with the Exception code: 0xe0434352 string in the details of the event.  Edit or add a .config file to the executable referenced in the Faulting application path.

We have a new KB article on this issue here:

2802058 - Keepass crashes and fails to synchronize with UE-V (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2802058)

Mark Stanfill | Senior Support Escalation Engineer | Management and Security Division

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PayPros Selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to Create PayPros Innovo Next-Generation Payment System

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST

Red Hat today announced that PayPros has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to create their next generation payment service platform.

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Posted: 21 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST

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The 2013 Government IT Vision – Embracing Innovation to Realize Transformation

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 08:45 AM PST

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VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 makes updating Desktop Agents even easier

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

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No virtual desktop left behind with VDI-in-a-Box 5.2

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

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