31 posts tagged Michel Roth

Recently, VMware announced that the beta of their application virtualization solution, codenamed Project Northstar, had reached the second beta. Even more recently, it was announced that VMware will be renaming Thinstall to ThinApp. All this justifies a look at this beta 2 it would seem.

Microsoft has released a tool into beta that allows for offline virtual machines to be updated. The tool uses PowerShell to create interaction between SCVMM 2007, SCCM 2007, WSUS to facilitate the upgrading of offline virtual machines.

HP mentioned earlier that they were going to offer the Citrix XenServer as an option in select HP Server models for $399. Dell at approximately the same time was rumored to be offering the VMware ESX3i embedded hypervisor for free on selected Dell server models. No need to speculate anymore.

At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas last week, Provision Networks showed the next version of its flagship product the Virtual Access Suite 5.10. With this release Provision Networks is the first hosted virtual desktop infrastructure for Microsoft Hyper-V.

As rumored earlier, the beta of the next version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager called System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has been released to the general public at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. This is the version of System Center Virtual Machine Manager that also manages VMware VI environments (via Virtual Center).

As you may know Citrix has renamed Presentation Server to XenApp. So when I say that Citrix has a release preview available for "Presentation Server 5.0" I'm sure you all know what I mean. XenApp 5.0 is the succesor to Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Feature Pack 1.

An easily overlooked tool that can give you an deep insight into the different factor that make up the performance of your server of workstation: the Windows Performance Tools Kit. Microsoft recently has updated the Windows Performance Tools Kit to support Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

It only seems like a matter of time until everything is going to be "Powershelled". All the major vendor are adopting it more and more. Even though Powershell is very powerfull, it might not be as easy as you might think... For one, you need to know a lot of "commands" from the top of your head and then there's the syntax at that.

I am a strong believer that virtualization is going to be one the biggest gamechangers we have seen in IT so far. Or has this already happended. One of the key factors in this (future) succes of virtualization is the commoditization of the Hypervisor.

Recently I ran into an interesting whitepaper by VMware that compared the performance of the different storage protocols: Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NFS. It seems that the whitepaper doesn't do a good job in comparing all the relevant tasts of all these protocol but it is interesting nontheless.