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What hypervisors are you seeing in the general public?
Scott’s post on multiple hypervisor’s got me thinking… Regardless of workload (server, VDI, DR, Test/Dev) I myself only really see one hypervisor out there… VMware. I think so many companies have built their operational policies, processes and procedures around ESX that it is going to be an incredibly difficult migration to something else. I know of […]
Tags: Citrix, cloud, ESX, esxi, microsoft, VDI, VIew, vmware, XenServer
Posted in Citrix XenDesktop, Cloud, Desktop Virtualization, Hyper-V, Linux, View, Virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2012, XenServer | 2 Comments »
Using An Address Naming Convention With Cisco UCS
Working with a customer today, the idea of Address Pools came up during a discussion about Cisco UCS. During this discussion we tossed out the idea of using a Address Naming Convention in the Cisco UCS environment. The purpose being, given a MAC, World Wide Port Name (WWPN) or World Wide Node Name (WWNN); I should […]
Tags: Cisco UCS, Cisco VPC, cloud, vmware
Posted in Cisco, Cisco UCS, Virtualization, vmware | No Comments »
Multi-Hypervisor Thoughts
I read the post titled “Multi-hypervisor management: Have you read the fine print?” from TechRepublic and it got me thinking. I have been a proponent of challenging vSphere and looking at lower cost solutions (primarily Hyper-V) to support non-production workloads. While reading this article, it dawned on me what the heck am I thinking. Organizations […]
Posted in Cloud, Virtualization, vmware, Windows Server 2012 | 2 Comments »
Rumor: Symantec to offload Altiris
Earlier this weekend, I tweeted about a report on The Register expecting Symantec to unload Altiris. It is incredible to think that Symantec acquired Altiris 5 years ago. What has Symantec done with Altiris? When the acquisition occurred the two core Altiris products that I had dealings with were the Altiris Deployment Solutions (mainly the […]
Tags: Altiris, deployment solution, Symantec
Posted in Desktop Virtualization | 2 Comments »