Posted by Fraser Campbell
Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:26:00 GMT
There are a few webcasts coming up with Virtual Iron that might be of interest.
First up is The New Economics of Virtualization on October 3rd, co-hosted with Intel. "Attendees will learn about":
- Leveraging new technologies like Xen and Intel VT
- Using virtualization to create more flexible infrastructure and
deliver computing capacity on demand
- Reducing the time it takes to provision and redeploy servers and
applications from days/weeks to minutes
- Supporting unmodified 32 and 64-bit Windows and Linux operating
systems on a single virtualization platform
- Running enterprise-class applications on virtual infrastructure
- Centrally managing virtual computers and physical servers
Next up is Reducing Cost and Increasing Agility with Virtualization on October 18th, this one is co-hosted by Platespin. Attendees will “learn how you can leverage Virtual Iron and PlateSpin to manage an end-to-end server consolidation project from assessment and planning through to deployment into a Virtual Iron infrastructure environment.”.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:35:00 GMT
For those of you contemplating or running clusters you might want to check out http://www.clusterbuilder.org/.
The site has a clustering encyclopedia, write-ups on many operating systems, software packages and hardware. More than 160 articles in all …
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:51:00 GMT
Red Hat has announced that LRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 is available for public consumption. Red Hat is “particularly interested in your feedback on the Xen technology.”.
See mailing list announcement from Red Hat here for details on how you might access the beta.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:15:00 GMT
On September 3rd, the Linux-Vserver project announced the availability of release 2.0.2. This release includes a number of fixes and new features.
At the same time the project unveiled it’s new wiki based website. This website has a consistent look-and-feel and better organization. It should make the Linux-Vserver project much more approachable.
See announcement at http://linux-vserver.org/Announcements/20060903 for full details.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:46:00 GMT
AUSTIN, TX—Win4Lin, the leading purveyor of desktop and enterprise Windows-on-Linux solutions for business, announced today full support for Ubuntu 6.06 for Win4Lin Pro Desktop and Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server.
Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for delivering Windows applications on thin clients via a Linux server. Both products have been fully tested on Ubuntu 6.06.
“With this announcement of support by Win4Lin, Ubuntu is once more able to deliver class leading solutions, to our customers,” said Malcolm Yates, ISV and Partner manager at Canonical. “Our users can reduce their management effort by maintaining existing applications and moving to Ubuntu for the future.”
“Win4Lin support of Ubuntu 6.06 for both Win4Lin Pro as well as Virtual Desktop Server provides users with the best overall coexistence with Windows in the market”, said Jim Curtin, president and CEO of Win4Lin. “This tight cooperation is a boon for users worldwide who have embraced the market-leading features and benefits of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.”
Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server can be used in one of two ways. First, VDS serves as a means to wean a Linux-committed organization from the last few Windows applications by consolidating them onto a Linux server for as-needed concurrent use. Windows can then be gracefully de-commissioned from a convenient central location once suitable replacements are in production. Secondly, organizations with reluctant user populations can use VDS to server Windows desktops in “full screen” mode on top of an end-to-end Linux infrastructure. This allows the organization to reap the many benefits of Linux infrastructure without their users needing to be re-trained in the first phases of the conversion.
Win4Lin Pro Desktop was recently picked as the winner in a LinuxWorld Magazine face-off review against VMware Workstation™ and was the winner of the prestigious LinuxWorld Expo Award for Best Enterprise Integration Product.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:21:00 GMT
This week Penguin Computing announced the availability of Sycld Clusterware HPC 4. See press release. Penguin’s product page (here), categorizes their software as follows:
Scyld ClusterWare HPC provides enterprises and organizations with a productive, simple and hardware agnostic HPC system enabling administrators to install, monitor and manage the cluster as a single system, from a single node – the Master. Through the Master, thousands of systems can be managed as if they were a single, consistent, virtual system, dramatically simplifying deployment and management and significantly improving data center resource utilization and server performance.
Sounds intriguing.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:18:00 GMT
From Red Hat, Novell Spar Over Xen’s Readiness:
Red Hat executives said the Xen code in the Raleigh, N.C., Linux distributor’s upcoming RHEL 5 works, but they won’t advise enterprise customers and ISVs to deploy it until unfinished business around the API set, interoperability interfaces and Xen’s integration with the Linux kernel are resolved.
An interesting perspective but it still smacks of we’re not ready so Xen isn’t ready. Nothing has stopped Red Hat in the past from patching kernel functionality in that they thought their customers wanted.
Also, from the same article:
At LinuxWorld, XenSource and Virtual Iron said they plan to ship their respective XenEnterprise and Virtual Iron platforms in the next few weeks. They indicated that Xen is ready.
Cnet’s
news.com has this quote regarding XenEnterprise from XenSource:
“It’s going to be generally available next week,” Levine said in a speech here at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The major goal of the software is to make the Xen open-source virtualization software easy to use, an idea reflected in the company’s “10 minutes to Xen” tagline.
Very interesting, generally available means not-BETA in my book. See original article XenSource’s first product due next week for more details.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:16:00 GMT
Steve Kemp announced xen-shell on Freshmeat yesterday.
The project claims to be …
a simple console program to allow a hosting company to delegate control of Xen instances directly to their clients. The shell allows a user to boot, shutdown, or reimage their own personal Xen guest without giving the user general access to the Xen host system or allowing the user to touch the instances of other users.
This sounds useful not only for hosting companies but also for “enterprisey” places where the Xen guests and Xen hosts may not be controlled by the same systems administrators.
Steve is a well known Debian hacker and has been churning out Xen tools for some time, I trust that his tool is already useful and that it will improve over time.
See Steve’s page A console interface to manage a xen instance or Freshmeat’s Project details for xen-shell.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:02:00 GMT
Just noticed the site “Virtualization Gets Real” today from Ziff Davis Media. The site is dedicated to VMware technology from what I can tell. Their claim:
Welcome to “Virtualization Gets Real” – your online resource for information about server virtualization. Here you’ll find the Technology Briefs, eSeminars and other resources you’ll need to implement virtualization solutions the right way – from choosing the right partners to providing tools to help you integrate and manage your environment.
Check it out at http://www.virtualization.ziffdavis.com/.
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Posted by Fraser Campbell
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:56:00 GMT
ZDNet has an article today with some responses from Novell CTO Markus Rex refuting Red Hat’s claim that Xen is not enterprise ready. Says Rex:
“We had all the major hardware partners that had virtualisation hardware like IBM, Intel and AMD. They all stood up and said ‘Yes, this technology’s ready, and we fully support deployments based on Xen and in combination with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10’.”
Read full article here.
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