Eric Sloof

Last week one of my students pointed me to an interesting site. The Holy Hypervisor contains columns written in Dutch and English the content raised my eyebrows and changed my point of view.




The site is dedicated to the hypervisor. The hypervisor saves you money, and that's what makes it great! It can also make some other things easier. Along with the money saving, it makes the hypervisor one of the most pleasant things in computing. What it does you ask? It partitions a piece of hardware in more pieces of virtual hardware, so it seems like you have more hardware than you actually purchased.

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 ;-)

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.

I just had a short email conversation with Chris Akerberg and he confirmed that David Bieneman has left Vizioncore. Chris has taken over David’s responsibilities and is heading Vizioncore from now on as president. I’m wondering what David’s plans are, but I think that we’ll hear from him soon. Maybe he’s creating another great invention like he did with his Ranger a few years ago.

A short quote from Quest Software: David has indicated that he is going to work independently on new product ideas.

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.