Virtualization by Davis: “How well do you know vSphere backup technologies?” plus 5 more

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• How well do you know vSphere backup technologies?
• EVENT: Bay Area Citrix User Group Meeting (June 4)
• Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 now with Windows 8 Support, Single Sign-On, and UI-Driven SSL Certificate Installation and much more
• Red Hat Announces Beta Availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0
• Paper: VMware View with FlexPod – Deployment Guide
• XenServer 6.0.2 – Reorder NICs

How well do you know vSphere backup technologies? Posted: 29 May 2013 02:27 PM PDT VMware evolved its vSphere backup features to reduce resource burdens and integrate with third-party tools. Test your knowledge of VDP and VADP.

EVENT: Bay Area Citrix User Group Meeting (June 4) Posted: 30 May 2013 10:17 AM PDT Hello San Francisco Bay Area residents! I would like to remind you that the first meeting of a brand-new, relaunched Bay Area Citrix User Group will be held next week in Santa Clara. BayCUG is a place where Citrix professionals can meet each other and discuss their ideas, experience and knowledge. There will not be any boring slides or sales speeches. Really!   The main… Read More

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 now with Windows 8 Support, Single Sign-On, and UI-Driven SSL Certificate Installation and much more Posted: 30 May 2013 09:31 AM PDT Lost in the excitement surrounding the announcement of Citrix XenDesktop 7, was the announcement that the very well received Citrix VDI-in-a-Box Project Curacao will be released as VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 at the end of June. This latest release shares some important Citrix technologies with XenDesktop 7. Here is what that means to our partners and customers.  VDI-in-a-Box is staying current:  Interested in a move to Windows 8?… Read More

Red Hat Announces Beta Availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

Paper: VMware View with FlexPod – Deployment Guide Posted: 30 May 2013 08:22 AM PDT FlexPod is a CISCO Systems base data center solution built upon Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus switches and NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) components. The advantage of using pre-designed and pre-validated configurations is the opportunity of reducing administrative effort maintaining a stable and compliant architecture while delivering, in this case, Windows desktops and applications. This paper, published by VMware, describes the Flexpod reference architecture for VMware View 5.1 with the technologies above mentioned. This paper is intended for IT decision makers, architects, administrators, and others who want to familiarize themselves with the components and capabilities of VMware View on FlexPod. This paper assumes that the reader has a general understanding of VMware View and the VMware vSphere platform, and the Flexpod, Cisco, and Netapp products described in this solution. Labels: Cisco, Paper, VDI, VMware, VMware View

XenServer 6.0.2 – Reorder NICs Posted: 30 May 2013 04:04 AM PDT If you need to reorder the NIC of a XenServer for whatever reasons, follow the procedures below. Note that XenServer 6.1 has an easier way of reordering the NICs and the instructions are here – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX135809   1. First step is to add the static mapping of the NIC to the device name to this conf file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/interface-rename-data/static-rules.conf For example, to assign the NIC with MAC address of… Read More

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