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Virtualization Backup: Agent or Agent-less?

November 30, 2010
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Virtualization Backup: Agent or Agent-less?

Many times we virtualization experts push for backups without the agents as these backups tend to be in our opinion, cleaner and faster. But what if you could get the benefits of your existing backup tools (such as Tivoli) but gain the power and advantages of using all the possibilities within the virtual environment. For…

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Applications Performance Management on VMware vSphere

November 29, 2010
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Applications Performance Management on VMware vSphere

As business critical applications move into production virtualized environments, the need arises to ensure their performance from a response time perspective. Legacy Applications Performance Management tools are in many cases not well suited to make the jump from static physical systems, to dynamic virtual and cloud based systems. For these reasons enterprises need to consider…

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Is VMware vCloud Director an effective Enterprise IT as a Service Platform?

November 23, 2010
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Is VMware vCloud Director an effective Enterprise IT as a Service Platform?

vCloud Director is a good start at an IT as a Service platform for enterprises looking for a VMware specific solution that does not integrate with existing physical or non-VMware provisioning mechanisms. Enterprises looking for IT as a Service solutions that span multiple virtualization platforms and that span provisioning across virtual and physical resources should…

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Cisco Virtual Desktop Experience

November 23, 2010
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Cisco Virtual Desktop Experience

Considering the success of Cisco's virtualization friendly UCS platform it should come as no surprise to hear that Cisco is intending to extend its data center virtualization footprint to include desktop virtualization as well. However as last week's announcement of the Cisco Virtualization eXperience Infrastructure (VXI) shows Cisco does not expect a straight repeat of…

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Installing ESXi to Local Disks or to a Memory Stick

November 22, 2010
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In my last post I talked about how to resolve an issue where a disgruntled employee walked out with the USB memory stick that had VMware ESXi installed on it. In that particular case, the VMware ESXi host kept on running and I was able to get a backup and restore the current running configuration…

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Virtual Bridges VERDE 5 extends its reach from desktop to cloud

November 19, 2010
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One week after Austin, TX-based Virtual Bridges Inc. announced that IBM is using its flagship VERDE solution to provide virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities for the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform, and just days after Desktone Inc. launched release 3.0 of its desktop cloud management service; Virtual Bridges is back in the news again…

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Application Virtualization or Application Deployment, which one is better? (Part IV)

November 17, 2010
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Application Deployment solutions reduce the cost of delivering applications and help you manage license use? With the end of support for Windows XP happening in 2014 many businesses are moving towards Windows 7 - ideally this inevitable cost is kept low. Application Virtualization can be used on 'traditional' desktops and laptops. Application Virtualization can be…

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Virtual CPU’s, CPU Ready and Applications Performance on vSphere

November 16, 2010
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Virtual CPU’s, CPU Ready and Applications Performance on vSphere

In a virtual system the tenancy to translate over-provisioning physical CPU's into over-provisioning virtual CPU's can be very harmful as the graph above shows. Assigning four vCPU's to a VM makes it harder for that VM to get scheduled in as the hypervisor has to wait for four vCPU's to become available at the same…

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Desktone 3.0 the $1 virtual desktop

November 15, 2010
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One week after Austin, TX-based Virtual Bridges Inc. announced that IBM is using its flagship VERDE solution to provide virtual desktop management and provisioning capabilities for the IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform, Chelmsford MA based Desktone Inc. today announced two major steps forward on the road to ubiquitous public cloud-based virtual desktops - The release…

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