VMware

Share operational processes to understand all organizational steps required to implement a virtualization solution. Improve on both new and existing models for enterprise virtualization.

VMware High Availability (VMware HA) monitors your virtual infrastructure for ESX Server host failures and restarts virtual machines that are interrupted by those failures on alternate hosts. Starting with ESX Server 3.5, VMware HA can also detect and handle the failures of individual virtual machines and respond appropriately based on your specifications. With this additional functionality, called Virtual Machine Failure Monitoring, VMware HA deals with both host operating system and guest operating system failures.

This demo shows Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) being used to initiate a VMotion on a VMWare ESX server.

VMware ESX/ESXi Server 35 Update 2

ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 2 Installable

ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 2 Installable Embedded

VMware Virtual Center 25 Update 2

Update Manager Update 2

Converter Enterprise Update 2

July ’08 is a busy moth at Palo Alto, VMware just released the update 2 for VMware ESX server 3.5 and Virtual center Server 2.5 and the free VMware ESXi Installable.

VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Server Latest Released Version: 2.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

VMware ESX 3.5 Server Latest Released Version: 3.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

VMware ESXi Installable Latest Released Version: 3.5 Update 2 | 07/25/08

What's New

·         Windows Server 2008 support

·         VMotion Compatibility

·         Storage VMotion

·         VSS quiescing support

·         Hot Virtual Extend Support

·         192 vCPUs per host

·         8Gb Fiber Channel HBAs

·         SAS arrays

·         10 GbE iSCSI initiator

·         10 GbE NFS support

·         IBM System x3950 M2

·         IPMI OEM extension support

·         System health monitoring through CIM providers

·         CIM SMASH/Server Management API

·         Display of system health information

·         Remote CLI

·         HP Management Agents

·         Solaris10 U5

·         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

·         Ubuntu 8.04

·         Driver updates

·         Library update

·         VMware High Availabilty (HA)

The benefits of virtual environments are widely known and accepted. However, Kroll Ontrack engineers have seen a ten-fold increase in data recovery needs in virtualised environments.  Data recovery from these systems is more complex and risky, because of the quantity and value of data residing on them.  To cater to this need Kroll Ontrack's R&D team have devised unique capabilities to recover data from virtual environments.