Many bloggers already discovered the video on YouTube showing that Hyper-V Quick Migration breaks network connections. In other words quick migration in the beta of Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor leads to network connection failures in virtual machines. VMware created their own page on blib.tv showing a comparison between VMotion and Quick migration and VMware VMotion does not break network connections. VMotion in VMware Virtual Infrastructure leaves network connections intact as virtual machines travel from one physical server to another. Sometimes a video says more than a hundred words ;-)
Friday, March 21. 2008
WMware TV on blip.tv
Veeam Backup 1.0.1 is now available
During the first month of GA, Veeam Backup was heavily downloaded and evaluated by their customers. The development team received a lot of useful feedback that helped them to create the new product update.
What's new in Veeam Backup 1.0.1:
1. VMware VCB 1.1 support.
2. Improved performance for backup, replication and file-level restore .
3. Light version of setup is available now.
4. Various bug fixes and improvements.
Wednesday, March 19. 2008
VMGuru Lab: Storage Server
Scott Herold over at VMguru.com is building up his lab. He is still waiting for the Dell server to arrive, but today he completed the installation of the iSCSI server.
I was able to finally build my iSCSI server a while back and wanted to highlight some of the details of this particular system. I wanted to try to do something unique with this configuration that would help to support a higher-end workload than a typical server.
Citrix XenDesktop User Experience Comparison
TekUberGeek compared the user experience of XenDesktop to VMWare VDI over several different WAN links and latencies. The wan is simulated with Shunra VE Desktop - He started of with 1 ms of latency then work up to 150 ms. You can watch a higher res version (with notes) here. This is his first entry into the Citrix XenDesktop Video Tips contest.
Saturday, March 15. 2008
VMware's interactive webinar
VMLive is VMware's interactive webinar series designed specifically for our partner community. There are two versions of VMLive - Tech Edition and Sales Edition. Tech Edition is intended for the System Engineer and Technical Consultant audience; the Sales Edition is intended for sales, marketing and business audience. VMLive is available exclusively to VMware partners.
Wednesday, March 12. 2008
Finally some video footage from Cannes
Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the VMworld in Cannes. I had some great plans to shoot some real cool video’s out there but I enjoyed a skiing holiday instead. While I was in Austria I was under the impression that I was the only one who is shooting video’s at these events, but I’m not ;-). In the past few days some video footage has reached the surface and can be viewed on YouTube. Fabio Virgilio from Italy keep up the good work.
Comments: Thanks, Fabio, for re-uploading those, but the credit needs to go to Eric Nielsen and Tony Dunn from the vmworld.com crew -- see their channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/VMworldTV