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VRC: Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500
The “Project Virtual Reality Check” team just released a new whitepaper: “Hyper-V 2008R2, vSphere 4, XenServer 5.5 on Intel ‘Nehalem’ Xeon 5500“.
“If you are looking for an independent advise and a ‘Reality Check’ in relation to Virtualizing Terminal Server and Desktop workloads, if you are curious about the impact of different hypervisors and the performance differences with various hardware and if you are searching for best practices for your virtual Desktops … Project VRC whitepapers are a must read!”
- Highlights, performance differences and best practice conclusions for Terminal Services workloads on:
- Bare metal Terminal Services; 2003/2008/x86/x64
- Hypervisors: Citrix XenServer 5.5, Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 ‘Hyper-V’ and VMware vSphere 4.0
- Performance impact using different HP Proliant state-of-the-art hardware using Intel Xeon ‘Nehalem’ x5500 Read the rest of this entry »
Citrix XenDesktop 4 released and available for download
The moment is here, XenDesktop 4 is available!
Much awaited and true to their promise Citrix has just officially made XenDesktop 4 available for download on the download page of MyCitrix.com : http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=163057 (you need to be registered and login).
Up until today I even didn’t know what Microcode or what it’s purpose was. After today I’ve learned a lot about it and would like to share it with you.
”Microcode is a layer of lowest-level instructions involved in the implementation of machine code instructions in many computers and other processors” is the description from Wikipedia. I read more and normally the microcode is updated by using a BIOS upgrade or ROM Flash from your vendor (In my case Intel). Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday after a 15 hour flight and a lot of waiting in Houston we’ve arrived at the Las Vegas airport. Got our selves a cab to the MGM grand where all is going down. Registration is very quiet a 6:30 am (off course), got myself the goody bag and casino money coupons and left 
Oh by the way it was very thoughfull of Citrix to add an additional cord to the badge whch states your Citrix Status… This allow me to join the CCIA happy hour which I will attend today.
What is the biggest issue of America? Everything is bigger than anywhere else in the world which means I walk at least 8km a day from my Hotel room / Casino (MGM Grand) to the conference room (MGM Grand) and back. At least now I can explain to you why it’s called MGM GRAND.
Read more for a summary of the day.
SAP adopting Citrix XenServer next to VMware ESX: weird or smart ?
My first reaction was a pretty big laughter when I read the article that stated that SAP is going to use XenServer to virtualize about 500 servers. The laughter is, as Alessandro states, because of the fact that during Paul Maritz’ keynote at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes 2 weeks ago, SAP got over 30 minutes of (my valuable !!!) time for a (pretty boring) presentation about what amazing stuff they were doing with VMware.
