27 May, 2009
If you consolidated physical servers with virtualization, you probably did so to reduce the costs of maintaining many physical servers — namely power and cooling, rack space, support contracts, physical hardware and so on.As a consultant, I often work with clients who have embarked on large server consolidation projects, migrated many physical hosts to virtual [...]
Filed under: Licensing - Microsoft - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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15 May, 2009
Last night I received a renewed version of the Kodiak BlueBear beta product. The previous version 0.0.2 had a very beautiful interface, one that you normally expect on different types of software but not for managing a Virtual Infrastructure. The new version 0.0.3 promises to get rid of the dreaded SSL errors from 0.0.2 because [...]
Filed under: VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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14 May, 2009
Recently I read Mike Laverick’s book titled: “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0″ and I must admit I was impressed by how it is written. In between the lines, I can clearly see the humor of Mike, which of course is not as much in a serious book as this one, but it is enough [...]
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by Gabrie van Zanten
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6 May, 2009
Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not?
If we compare [...]
Filed under: VMware - Workstation
by Gabrie van Zanten
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