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 […]
As President Barack Obama was sworn in just after 12 noon, the website whitehouse.gov changed, adopting the design and features of the Obama Change.gov team’s transition website. There will be many more changes along the way, and Cloud Computing is a key element of the new administration’s Technology Innovation and Government Reform (TIGR) program. In […]
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 […]
Yesterday, October 16th, we took part in this very interesting Forum on managerial training at the STOA’ institute in the beautiful Villa Campolieto in Herculaneum. The event, organized in parallel with the conclusion of the management courses organized by the CEK-Lab (Continuous Education & Knoledge Laboratory), included seminar sessions of professional communities after the round […]
Citrix is now open to the standard format of Virtual Machines, which means that now a virtual machine is like a series of settings that exported to VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer or Microsoft Hyper-V will be the same thing, just use the appropriate conversion tool and the game (format migration) is done. OVF according […]