Next release of Xenserver public beta release available now

by Sven Huisman Virtualization news 2 Comments »

The Citrix blog announces the following news:

The public beta is available of the next release of Xenserver. Highlights of the release include:

  • Automated high availability
  • Windows Server 2008 guest support
  • Persistent performance statistics and metrics
  • Fully integrated Fibre Channel multipath support with configuration via XenCenter
  • VM grouping, searching and tagging
  • Email alerts
  • Disaster recovery for VM metadata
  • Active/active NIC aggregation
  • Xen hypervisor updated to version 3.2
  • XenConvert P2V migration tool
  • Wider hardware support
    …and many more.  Read the rest of this entry »

VMware’s Diane Greene about virtual future

by Sven Huisman Articles, VMworld 2008 - Las Vegas 1 Comment »

EWeek.com had a Q&A with VMware’s president and CEO Diane Greene. She talks about how virtualization has changed the last year and how she thinks virtualization will develop the next 12-18 months. It’s a good read, and here are some things that interested me the most: Read the rest of this entry »