Even though BrianMadden.com is primarily about desktop virtualization, we still have to talk about server virtualization from time-to-time, (generally in the context of desktop virtualization). Here are some of those times:
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Yesterday during the Microsoft Management Summit keynote, Microsoft showed off a demo of Shared-Nothing Live Migration using Hyper-V 3 and SCVMM 2012, and twitter was awash with comments like @fordeg's " VMware got kicked in the nuts today at MMS 2012...
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April 18, 2012
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There have been many ( many !) articles, blogs, podcasts, and tweets over the past several years discussing whether Apple should allow Mac OS X to be virtualized. There have even been rumors that this was going to be allowed (or even that Apple might...
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June 09, 2011
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Last up in our rundown of the Big 5's desktop virtualization product lines is Microsoft. This is probably the most ambiguous vendor, because so many of their products intertwine to make up their solution. Many of those products have been around for...
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December 29, 2009
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Past week was one of the most interesting weeks of the year! BriForum 2009 is the Application and Desktop delivery event with no-nonsense presentations, great presenters and cool vendors. More than 405 attendees (vendors included) where at the venue....
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July 28, 2009
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Yesterday, VMware announced vSphere 4 - the successor to VI 3.5, and its association with vCloud - a relatively new initiative to provide local, private cloud computing environments in combination with third-party external cloud providers in an effort...
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April 22, 2009
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I have been thinking a bit lately about how our computing environments are evolving into a more dynamic mode. In this article, I make the case that Microsoft should make some schema changes so that we have a standard way to do what we want in the future...
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April 06, 2009
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First of all, this is not an early April Fools joke! But for 24 hours on April 1st(GMT), Microsoft is hosting a rather large and free event that you can participate in without leaving your desk or home. The event is primarily aimed at developers, but...
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March 23, 2009
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While storage solutions and virtualization can often become a goal in themselves, in respect to availability, it’s not a simple task to design a datacenter availability solution. All aspects of the datacenter influence one another. To position the...
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March 18, 2009
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This past February 24-26th, I was at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France. Our Project Virtual Reality Check presentation was really great and with 200 people in the audience, during lunch, a good session. Our presentation contained: Test platform and...
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March 07, 2009
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Summary This article is a personal look at trying the Microsoft Hyper-V Server. It is not a formal "review", but more of a personal observation, in trying to use the product differently than perhaps Microsoft intended. In this article, a look...
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November 30, 2008
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Tim Mangan is at the Citrix Summit this week. Citrix runs the Summit is yearly to update their partners on upcoming product changes. While this is an NDA event, preventing reporting on much of the details, there still is much to talk about this week. Today he reports on Day 0.
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October 26, 2008
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Is virtual desktop infrastructure old wine in new bottles?! Will this still be the case in 2010?
If there is just one buzzword in the IT industry, then it is “virtualization.” Nowadays we virtualize the network, storage, hardware, desktops and applications. Desktop or workspace virtualization is an application that is gaining in importance.
This form of virtualization can, in essence, be divided into to parts: “server-hosted” and “client-side.” The type of desktop virtualization that is receiving the most attention is “server-hosted.”
More and more organizations are asking themselves whether they must choose between Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Server-Based Computing (SBC) or local desktops. Questions that arise include: Will VDI replace the SBC concept? What are the pros and cons of VDI? What role do application virtualization and OS streaming play in the overall concept?...
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September 23, 2008
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I don't mean "huge" as in "a big deal." I mean VMworld is literally a super gigantic conference. More than 200 vendors. More than 14,000 attendees. This is a problem for me, since I'm flying to Vegas on Sunday to attempt to "cover" the conference. What vendors should I focus on?...
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September 12, 2008
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There are a couple of ways to automate the installation of an ESX server. Most methods are very generic though and don’t just install ESX but install a lot of different OSes, automated or not. But all of them only install the basic OS. Customizing it is always a highly specialized and time-consuming task. To deal with this, the idea for the EDA was born.
EDA stands for ESX Deployment Appliance. It’s specifically built to deploy ESX servers in the easiest and fastest way. It not only deploys ESX servers in just a few minutes, it also completely configures them. It also has a built-in script-builder that makes it possible for anybody to create a customized, completely configured ESX server without the need to really know scripting. It has a very intuitive web-interface that makes it very easy to setup a host so it not only deploys it very fast, but also makes it a very powerful disaster recovery tool.
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August 28, 2008
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Recently, Brian and I spent some time in Sunnyvale, Calif. working with Qumranet testing their Solid ICE VDI solution . Solid ICE uses an open-source hypervisor called KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) to host Windows XP VM's. Qumranet is the company...
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August 20, 2008
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At last, Microsoft has announced a virtualization-friendly change to the license agreements for 41 server products. The changes will allow administrators to run software on more than one physical piece of hardware, which, in the world of VMotion, XenMotion...
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August 19, 2008
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It's been a few days now since VMware's VI 3.5 and ESX 3.5i Update 2 problems, so I thought it prudent to wrap up what's gone on. Those of you directly affected are probably already aware of what's gone down. As of Wednesday morning, a...
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August 13, 2008
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Word on the street is that VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2 have been affected by a licensing bug left over from development. This bug renders any powered off machine incapable of being turned back on, suspended machines incapable...
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August 12, 2008
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Back in April, I posted a session from BriForum Amsterdam comparing Xen to VMware ESX. The only problem was that enough had changed in the time between BriForum and the release of the video that some people found it wasn't relevant. So, in an effort...
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August 07, 2008
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The “Application and Desktop Delivery solutions” diagram has been developed in order to be able to provide a complete overview of the various applications and desktop delivery solutions. This article was written by Ruben Spruijt in order to introduce the highlights of the delivery solutions in 30 minutes. There are so many delivery solutions that the functionalities can be confused through incomplete knowledge. The point of this article is not to describe all of the application scenarios or the technical advantages or disadvantages, but purely as a high level, vendor dependent overview of the start of technology in the applications and desktop delivery segment. Hopefully this overview will be helpful!...
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Ruben Spruijt
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July 16, 2008
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