Microsoft announced the release of the Release Candidate (RC) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 as publicly available. You can either download the Full Install Package, or a pre-configured VHD. As with the previous release there are a number of improved features for you. With this release you will be able to do: Setup Upgrade New in RC: Upgrade and
Gartner published “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure” . Gartner’s Magic Quadrant research methodology provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers. As of mid-2011, at least 40% of x86 architecture workloads have been virtualized on servers; furthermore, the installed base is expected to grow five-fold from 2010
Thomas Berger published an article on Citrix Blog about managing XenServer with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012. Also, you can find German version of the article here : this article has been written by Michel Luescher (Microsoft Consulting). In many of todays data centers you will commonly find hypervisors from multiple vendors used in parallel because of various reasons.
Daniel Feller published an article about VM allocations when moving Citrix XenApp servers from physical to virtual. First, you have to look at a few decision points: OS Scalability: This is more of an issue in Windows 2003. Operations: More VMs means more to manage, unless you use a single image management solution like Provisioning Services. Application Requirements: The applications
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The other day the folks at IDC published their worldwide quarterly server virtualization tracker report. You can see the news release here. Some of the main takeaways are: 18% of all new servers shipped in Q4’09 were virtualized, up 3% year over year Sales of virtualized servers declined 14% for 2009 Virtualization licenses declined 7% for 2009, but were up
