Virtualization by Davis: “Wireshark Versions Applicable for NetScaler Releases” plus 19 more

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• Wireshark Versions Applicable for NetScaler Releases
• Ensuring XenApp scalability with resource allocation, load testing
• Application delivery management: Deciding how to run apps in 4 steps
• Fronting XenMobile MDM with NetScaler
• VMware Horizon View 5.2 Reviewer’s Guide
• Cisco releases beta of Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V
• Paper: VDI Smackdown – solutions overview and feature comparison matrix version 2.0
• Paper: Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed
• Paper: DVS Enterprise – Active System 800v with VMware Horizon View 5.2: Reference Architecture
• Workflow automation software showdown: Citrix, Microsoft and VMware
• Release: Oracle VM 3.2.2
• VMware Workstation vs. Player: A guide to test-and-development choices
• Disaster recovery hosting in the cloud eliminates redundant data centers
• Dos and don'ts of vSphere inventory tagging
• Release: VMware Workstation 9.0.2/Player 5.0.2
• Citrix Ready Technical webinar with PHD Virtual
• Red Hat Introduces JBoss Fuse and JBoss A-MQ to Help Enterprises Combat Inefficiencies Caused by Islands of Applications
• JBoss A-MQ 6.0 and JBoss Fuse 6.0 enable Intelligent Integration Everywhere
• Everything you need to know about desktop virtualization
• PrivateEye Enterprise is Citrix Ready

Wireshark Versions Applicable for NetScaler Releases Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:20 AM PDT If you are using Wireshark to analyze network packets traversing through the NetScaler appliance, you would be interested in learning about the Wireshark versions that are applicable to different NetScaler releases. The following table tells you about the Wireshark versions that you can use with different NetScaler releases and builds.

Ensuring XenApp scalability with resource allocation, load testing Posted: 12 Mar 2013 02:27 PM PDT If you ever want your Citrix environment to grow, XenApp scalability is of the utmost importance. It all starts with proper resource allocation.

Application delivery management: Deciding how to run apps in 4 steps Posted: 12 Mar 2013 12:35 PM PDT Breaking down types of applications into four categories helps determine the best application delivery management style for your environment.

Fronting XenMobile MDM with NetScaler Posted: 12 Mar 2013 05:21 PM PDT The purpose of this document is to provide reference architecture to place a NetScaler in front of your XenMobile MDM solution. This will allow the XenMobile Device Manager (XDM) to be placed within the walls of your datacenter leaving the NetScaler appliance in the DMZ.

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Reviewer’s Guide Posted: 12 Mar 2013 05:08 PM PDT After the release of its end user computing suite named Horizon, VMware published the Horizon View 5.2 Evaluator's Guide, the aim of the document is to allow users to find a support and learn how to install, configure and use VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment. The Horizon Suite includes VMware Horizon Workspace, VMware Horizon View, and VMware Horizon Mirage. Horizon Workspace allows users to access with single sign-on to applications, data, and virtual desktops from any mobile device or computer. Horizon View allows users with remote access to secure virtual desktops stored in the datacenter. Horizon Mirage centrally manages desktop images of physical computers at the same time as it provides end users with local execution power and user personalization of the desktop. Labels: Horizon Application Manager, VMware This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Cisco releases beta of Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Microsoft Hyper-V Posted: 12 Mar 2013 02:32 PM PDT In September 2011 Cisco announced that it would extend support for its Nexus 1000V virtual switch in order to support the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Now Cisco has announced a public beta of the Nexus 1000V virtual switch for Hyper-V 3.0, part of Windows Server 2012. Also System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager is needed to use and manage the beta release. The beta bundle on the Nexus 1000V community page consists of: Nexus 1000V Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) ISO Nexus 1000V Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) VSEM Provider MSI Package Nexus 1000V Installer App Getting Started Guide Beta Test-cases Document Product Documentation It does not yet include the Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) Labels: Cisco, Microsoft

Paper: VDI Smackdown – solutions overview and feature comparison matrix version 2.0 Posted: 12 Mar 2013 02:17 PM PDT Ruben Spruijt, CTO at PQR and one of the two founders of the Virtual Reality Check (VRC) project has announced the release of version 2 of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) smackdown. VDI Smackdown – solutions overview and feature comparison matrix version 2.0 contains 92 pages and compares the VDI solutions from the following vendors: Citrix, Microsoft, RedHat, Dell/Quest/Wyse, Virtual Bridges, VMware, Ericom, HP, Oracle, Teradici, Double Take, Cisco, Unidesk, Juniper, Cameyo, Spoon, Symantec, IBM, LANDesk, Novell, RES and Framehawk. The paper has the following goals: Provide an application and desktop delivery solutions overview Explain the different desktop virtualization concepts Explain the pros and cons of desktop virtualization Highlight why application virtualization and VDI are a perfect fit Describe the different desktop virtualization vendors and solutions Compare the features of the various desktop virtualization solutions Conclusion: Which Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution is THE best? It's impossible to give an accurate answer to the question without a better understanding of the requirements.. In essence it depends on various areas as mentioned in paragraph 4.5, 'VDI Strategy'. It's important to have a Vision and Strategy around Application and Desktop Delivery. Designing, building, managing and maintaining the Optimized Desktop infrastructure using the Right Technologies, corresponding vendors and products is an important step. Success = Vision x Execution x Adoption. "This whitepaper is a useful resource in this journey!" Labels: Paper, VDI This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Paper: Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed Posted: 12 Mar 2013 01:57 PM PDT Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed". The paper which contains 14 pages and details how Hyper-V replica works in conjunction with the WAN optimazation solution from Riverbed using the Steelhead appliance. Hyper-V Replica provides the ability to perform asynchronous and frequent replication of virtual machines to another server running Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role installed. The paper contains the following sections: Introduction WAN Optimization and Hyper-V Replica Deployment Test conducted and Results Test 1a: Initial Replication of a Sparsely Populated Virtual Machine Test 1b: Initial Replication with a Densely Populated Virtual Machine Test 1c: Initial Replication of a Single Virtual Machine with Hyper-V Replica Compression Enabled Test 2a: "Warm" Initial Replication and Snapshot Optimization Test 2b: Replication of Subsequent Changes Test 3: Extended Testing Conclusion: We found that the Steelhead appliances exceeded expectations in reducing network traffic in a variety of scenarios including initial and delta replications. The Steelhead appliances were easy to configure and Hyper-V Replica did not require any special configuration or deployment steps (for using the WAN optimizer). Over and above the built-in compression technology provided by Hyper-V Replica, the Riverbed devices were able to further optimize replication traffic. The time taken to complete and maintain replication and network traffic was reduced by up to 98% with 70% being typical for sustained and varied workloads. Labels: Microsoft, Paper

Paper: DVS Enterprise – Active System 800v with VMware Horizon View 5.2: Reference Architecture Posted: 12 Mar 2013 01:23 PM PDT Dell has released a paper titled: "DVS Enterprise – Active System 800v with VMware Horizon View 5.2: Reference Architecture". The paper which contains 60 pages details a reference architecture for running VMware Horizon 5.2 desktop virtualization on top of Dell converged infrastructure solution, the Active System 800v. The Active System 800v includes Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis with Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator, Dell PowerEdge M620 blades, Dell EqualLogic Storage and Dell Force10 network switches. Unfortunately Dell decided not to use the LoginVSI benchmarking suite, allowing the solution to be compared to other similar solutions. The paper contains the following sections: Introduction Audience Overview Design Principles Reference Architecture Dell Blade Network Architecture Converged Network Architecture Storage Architecture Management Infrastructure VMware Horizon View 5.2 Infrastructure Dell Wyse Cloud Clients Scalability End-User Workload Characterization Delivery Model Dell Mobile Clinical Computing – AlwaysOn Point of Care Dell DVS Enterprise – Mobile Secure Desktop Labels: Dell, Paper, VMware This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Workflow automation software showdown: Citrix, Microsoft and VMware Posted: 12 Mar 2013 10:23 AM PDT Workflow automation software is growing in popularity, but each product has its limitations. Find out how products from three major vendors stack up.

Release: Oracle VM 3.2.2 Posted: 12 Mar 2013 12:59 PM PDT Oracle has released version 3.2.2. of VM Manager and VM Server for x86. The update is considered a patch update, which can be installed on top of Oracle VM 3.2. released in January this year. There is no update for SPARC. The update fixes the following issues: Fixes an upgrade issue to return the correct UUID when discovering an Oracle VM Server with an SMBIOS newer than version 2.6. Sets a maximum of 20 vCPUs for Dom0 on large systems to provide better out-of-the-box10Gb Ethernet performance. Adds IPMI lanplus interface support. Fixes a memory leak issue after exiting the Oracle VM Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) when running the exit.sh script. Adds support in CLI for returning the "Page83 ID" when listing physical disks. Labels: Oracle, Release

VMware Workstation vs. Player: A guide to test-and-development choices Posted: 12 Mar 2013 10:31 AM PDT VMware Player is free. VMware Workstation is not. But in a comparison of VMware Workstation vs. Player, cost is only one consideration.

Disaster recovery hosting in the cloud eliminates redundant data centers Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:46 AM PDT Despite the benefits of disaster recovery hosting in the cloud, VMware admins will find that SRM and vCloud Director don't make cloud-based DR easy.

Dos and don'ts of vSphere inventory tagging Posted: 12 Mar 2013 06:41 AM PDT Tagging can make vSphere inventory management easier or harder, depending on how you implement tag categories and what descriptors you choose.

Release: VMware Workstation 9.0.2/Player 5.0.2 Posted: 12 Mar 2013 12:25 PM PDT VMware has released version 9.0.2 of its desktop virtualization platform Workstation and released version 5.0.2 of Player This version is the follow-up of version 9.0.1 which was released in November last year. The update is considered a maintenance release and resolves some known issues. The following issues are solved for both Workstation and Player: On a Windows 7 host, when you plug and unplug a headset several times, the audio card of the guest would not work. This has been fixed in Workstation 9.0.2. When installing VMware Tools in Linux virtual machines, the The default screen resolution options have been standardized to 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, or 1280×800 for the initial login. After login, resolution can be set to any value the user desires or Autofit can be used. Image copy/paste now correctly function with Solaris 10 and 11 guests. In VMware Player, the list of available NICs in the Automatic Bridging Settings dialog window is now refreshed without restarting Player. A memory leak that impacted Windows hosts and guests has been fixed. When running in a Linux distribution using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Desktop folders now open as expected. VMware Tools no longer crashes on Windows 2008 Server Core x64 SP2 operating system, with the following error: VMware Tools unrecoverable error: (vthread-3) Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred. However, Windows 2008 Server Core x64 SP2 is not a supported operating system for VMware Workstation. Scrolling with a Lenovo ThinkPad UltraNav scroll button no longer requires excessive force. The following issues are solved for Workstation only: From the Linux version of Workstation, the Description field for a remote virtual machine now captures all characters entered. When editing Workstation preferences on Windows hosts, occasionally a permissions error would be displayed. This issue has been resolved. It is now possible to create a linked clone from a read-only template virtual machine. You can now create full clones from a snapshot of a Windows XP Mode virtual machine. A virtual machine created using Use a physical disk (For advanced users) from the new virtual machine wizard may display the following error when powering on: A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state… The cause of this issue has been fixed. More detailed PCI information has been added and a potential problem that resulted in risk of rebooting the host when selecting Collect Support Data has been fixed. Previously, when you manually disabled networking in the Network Manager and then attempted to suspend the virtual machine, the operation would fail and Workstation would show thean error The request to suspend this virtual machine failed because the corresponding VMware Tools Script did not run successfully…. This has been fixed. The OVFTool has been updated to version 3.0.2. Disk cleanup for encrypted virtual machines has been disabled until VMware can further investigate reports of encrypted disks being damaged by this operation. Autostart virtual machines now power on automatically after upgrading Windows hosts to Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. Labels: Release, VMware

Citrix Ready Technical webinar with PHD Virtual Posted: 12 Mar 2013 09:29 AM PDT PHD Virtual Solutions for XenServer Recovering from a disaster can be a long, arduous and expensive process. But, with Citrix and PHD Virtual it doesn't have to be. Citrix XenServer and PHD Virtual solutions provide the best value in virtualization and data protection against disasters ranging from floods, tornadoes, data deletion, and infrastructure failure. Attend this webinar, and we will show you how you can… Read More

Red Hat Introduces JBoss Fuse and JBoss A-MQ to Help Enterprises Combat Inefficiencies Caused by Islands of Applications Posted: 11 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT Red Hat JBoss Middeware launches new integration and messaging products

JBoss A-MQ 6.0 and JBoss Fuse 6.0 enable Intelligent Integration Everywhere Posted: 11 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT By Pierre Fricke, director, middleware product marketing

Everything you need to know about desktop virtualization Posted: 12 Mar 2013 08:19 AM PDT What does it take to be a desktop virtualization architect? Being able to say "It depends" in twelve different languages is a great start. English (American): It depends English (Australian): It depends English (British): It depends English (Canadian): It depends German: je nachdem Spanish: eso depende French: elle dépend Dutch: het hangt ervan Italian: dipende Swahilli: inategemea Chinese: 视情况而定 Japanese: それは場合による Translations courtesy of Google… Read More

PrivateEye Enterprise is Citrix Ready Posted: 12 Mar 2013 03:54 AM PDT Securing the Last Two Feet of the Network Organizations are adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to reduce cost,  improve accessibility, and most importantly   enhance security by keeping their data safe and secure  inside the datacenter at all times. However, one cannot ignore a major gap here  every virtual desktop, no matter how well secured it may be on the back–end, is vulnerable to social… Read More

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