The addition of a new host server installed with the free XenServer Enterprise 5.5 hypervisor, even if it can be trivial using the XenCenter graphical interface It can easily generate errors even if the host machines are practically the same, of the same brand and model, this is because to allow a painless XenMotion migration, […]
We attended this dutiful event in the beautiful Sheraton Golf2 Hotel in Rome. Below is the agenda: 9.30 Registration of participants 10.00 Welcome and opening of the meeting Luigi Marcocchia, Softway 10.10 How to harness the power of virtualization to transform Data Centers into simplified cloud computing infrastructures, capable of providing advanced, reliable, flexible and […]
Some time ago in the in-depth analysis of hypervisor performance we found ourselves faced with a native problem of virtual Simmetric MultiProcessing (vSMP) which would be a methodology of Simmetric MultiProcessing (SMP), thanks to which we can assign more than one virtual CPU (vCPU) to a virtual machine. This feature would allow you to give […]
For those who follow our updates, not long ago we published the following article: high-availability-free-kemari-allo-xen-summit-asia-tokyo On the new horizons of high availability of the XEN open source project. In the demos of the RoadMap of the VMware portal there is a video on a new very interesting feature, VMware Fault Tolerance, which exploits, as it […]
This is a mini guide to the chapter on swapping formats between Virtual Machine Manager. In this case we have native Microsoft Virtual Server VMs and we want to mount them on XenServer. The issue is simplified by the fact that they both use the VHD format as virtual disks. The operations to be carried […]
This article is a guide on how to always have your version of the ESX hypervisor in your pocket and be able to try any system if it boots with VMware’s flagship hypervisor, the ESX 3i free version with no limits of use. First of all, you need to have the version that can be […]
The First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO – Nebraska, USA) wanted to insure its data center against any power outage. So they built a new “underground” data center in Omaha, lined with concrete. The facility is powered by hydrogen fuel cells, fully operational “off the grid”, not connected to the national electricity grid. “If the […]
Big news from the Xen Summit in Tokyo in November 2008. Below is the agenda: Welcome & Keynote Hitoshi Matsumoto: Welcome Ian Pratt: Xen Project Status – English – Video (177 MB) Kernel Architecture Andrew Warfield: Services in the Virtualization Plane – English – Video (134 MB) Yoshiaki Tamura: Modernization of Kemari Using HVM with […]
We attended the event organized by Citrix in Rome at the Hotel Melia’, here is the agenda of the day: Agenda 9.30 a.m. Registration of participants 10.00 a.m. Welcome and Agenda of the day 10.10 a.m. Virtually Real: When Virtualization Becomes a Reality Aldo Rimondo Country Manager Citrix Systems Italy 10.30 a.m. Virtualizing IT Environments: […]
On July 28, VMware’s ESXi 3.5 hypervisor, the state of the art of hypervisors It has been made FREE, freely downloadable and installable. Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is available for free download on October 2nd The Xen hypervisor, notoriously FREE in various versions, can be downloaded in the XenExpress version here The new free version of […]