Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back — this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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14.2.2008 Free VMware Server Beta Released
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today introduced VMware Server, a free new entry-level hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers.
"Virtualization and VMware have become mainstream in the past year, and many customers have deployed thousands of VMware server environments across their enterprises. With VMware Server, we are ensuring that every company interested in, considering or evaluating server virtualization for the first time has access to the industry-leading virtualization technology," said Diane Greene, VMware President. "VMware Server makes it easy and compelling for companies new to virtualization to take the first step toward enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure."
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6.2.2006 VMware not afraid of upcoming Microsoft Virtual Server Manager
In a phone interview before his presentation at EMC Technology Summit Monday, Raghu Raghuram, vice president of VMware's Platform Products, claimed the company's forthcoming platform upgrade and new consolidation add-on will deliver the most advanced virtualization capabilities in the market.
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30.4.2006 Try Out and Install Windows Vista in Virtual Machine with Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare Server
Want to install and play with
Windows Vista but don’t have extra or spare computer hardware to load the operating system? Windows Vista addicts can use virtualization technology to create a virtual machine on top of their current operating system which will enable the ability to fresh install Windows Vista on the newly created virtual machine.
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20.11.2006 Microsoft Steps Against Linux with 8 Flavors of Windows Server 2008
Microsoft is beginning to increasingly focus on outlining its strategy against Linux on the server operating system market, and Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is positioned as an ace up its sleeve.
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12.11.2007 Microsoft, VMware Agree: They Better Cooperate
VMware and Microsoft both said they're working behind the scenes to make it easier for virtualization users to migrate across their differing virtualization environments and run each other's virtualized files.
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22.6.2007 Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
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13.3.2008 Download Chrome OS VMware Image
Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download.
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20.11.2009 Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems supporting virtual appliances.
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16.7.2008 VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support
VMware has announced the latest version it's flagship virtualization software - VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which are huge - including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines.
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2.11.2009 VMWare Private Beta Build 185517 Has Support for Windows Aero
For those of you running Windows Vista or 7 in a virtualization client, I’m sure you miss having the nice, satisfying Windows Aero eye candy, especially with the Aero Basic skin looking the way that it does now.
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1.9.2009 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition (SQL Server Mobile) is the compact database for rapidly developing applications in both native mode and the .NET Compact Framework that extend enterprise data management capabilities to devices.
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26.11.2005 Microsoft Updates Its Windows Server Roadmap, Longhorn server delayed
Expect Longhorn Server Beta 3 in the first half of next year, but no Windows Server 'Centro' for mid-size businesses until 2008. And there might be a Windows Server Branch Office in the future, after all.
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24.5.2006 Micrososoft drops major features in Windows Server Virtualization - Viridian, beta starts with Longhorn Server RTM
Microsoft does it again, promise great cool features and even demo them. They let us wait for months/years and then just drops the cool stuff for a "future release" Just like the Windows Server team did with R2 at the time.
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11.5.2007 Longhorn Server to Be Named Windows Server 2007
ActiveWin are claiming that the final designation for Windows Codenamed Longhorn Server will be Windows Server 2007 after all, how original! Speculated here long before Vista hit RTM.
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17.1.2007 Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008
To next to no one's surprise, Microsoft is going to christen Longhorn Server "Windows Server 2008." And it might do so as early as next week to coincide with the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles.
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10.5.2007 New Windows Server 2008-Based Server Products Available
Windows Essential Server Solutions are basically designed as a bundle of SQL Server 2008, Exchange Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, along with additional Microsoft technologies, set up as an all-in-one IT offering for small and midsize customers.
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13.5.2008 An Introduction to Windows Server 2008 Server
Server is a new installation option that was introduced in Windows Server 2008. It provides the ability to install and configure a trimmed-down version of Windows Server 2008 which is designed to perform only certain server tasks.
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9.6.2009 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Why Windows is less secure than Linux ?
Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth.
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15.4.2006 Lenovo To Shun Linux
Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week.
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5.6.2006 $300 Linux Computers
AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system.
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16.7.2006 15 Years of Linux!
15 years have passed since Linux appeared. On August 25th 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds has announced the world about his new operating system:
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26.8.2006 Microsoft: 'Linux owes us'
In comments confirming many of the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that the Linux OS (operating system) infringes on his firm's intellectual property.
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18.11.2006 Gates on Vista, Linux and more
Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.
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18.11.2006 Microsoft threatens Linux again
I was waiting to come from Ballmer's threats against Linux on IP grounds last week never materialised, so it is time to do it myself.
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25.2.2007 The Linux lesson Windows needs
Gartner analysts are running about in Las Vegas, hair on fire, shouting that Windows is collapsing. Or about to collapse. Or something.
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11.4.2008 Can Linux beat the bloat
Linus Torvalds shocked the crowd (well, the group) at LinuxCon this week with three words.
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25.9.2009 Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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VMware Releases Free Server
Software
VMware on Wednesday released
the final version of its
VMware Server virtualization
product, the successor to GSX
Server. Just like the beta
release that debuted in
February, VMware is making the
software available free of
charge, much like Microsoft
has done with Virtual Server
2005 R2...
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13.07.2006VMware Launches Free Server
Beta
As expected, VMware on Monday
introduced VMware Server, the
successor to GSX Server. The
company hopes that by giving
away its entry-level product,
it will drive users to upgrade
to its for-pay ESX Server, as
well as position the company
as the leader in
virtualization technology...
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06.02.2006VMware Updates Its Free Offering, Includes Support for Windows Vista
VMware wants users to try its virtualization software on the house.
On Nov. 13, VMware will offer the beta version of its VMware
Server 2, a free virtualization tool that allows users to partition a single physical server into multiple virtual machines. The software works both
within Microsoft Windows and Linux environments.
VMware released the first version of its free software in February 2006, and the
company estimates that more than 3 million copies of the software has been downloaded since then. The new beta is available for download Nov. 13 and
will become generally available in the first half of 2008.
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13.11.2007VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions
VMware is making a free
benchmarking tool available to
IT professionals today to
evaluate the performance of
virtualisation technology in
their datacentres. Meanwhile,
it seeks to assure competitors
that the benchmarking
standards will be fair to all
of them.
VMmark is
available for a free
download and can be used
to determine how well
virtualisation software works
with any of six typical
datacentre workloads: file
server, e-mail server, web
server, a stand-by server, an
online transaction processing
(OLTP) database and a Java
order entry system. VMmark
runs on either Linux or
Windows.
VMware
shared a prototype of VMmark
in October 2006 with members
of the Standard Performance
Evaluation (SPEC), an industry
group that establishes
performance benchmarks so
customers can evaluate
products. At that time, SPEC
had just formed a working
group to develop benchmarks
for virtualisation software.
It is still working on those
benchmarks...
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23.07.2007VMware Server 2 Beta Now Open
VMware has launched a public beta of Server 2, the latest version of the California company's software that allows physical servers to be partitioned
into multiple virtual machines...
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13.11.2007VMware Ships Free Virtual
Machine App
VMware on Wednesday introduced
VMware Player, a free tool
that enables users to run
virtual machines on a Linux or
Windows PC. The company says
that the program would be
ideal for those beta testing
software, or evaluating
pre-built application
environments. The release of
the Player comes during
VMworld...
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21.10.2005Security Vulnerability Found
in VMware
A "very serious"
security vulnerability has
been discovered in VMware's
line of virtual computing
products, including VMware
Workstation, GSX Server, ACE
and VMware Player. The flaw
could enable malware to
effectively "jump"
from the virtual machine onto
the real computer running
VMware software...
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22.12.2005VMware's Rosenblum: We'll Be Technically Better Than Microsoft
Mendel Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware, a Stanford University professor of computer science, and chief science officer for the market leader in
virtualization. At VMworld, the annual VMware user group meeting this week in San Francisco, Rosenblum talked with InformationWeek Editor at Large
Charles Babcock about the latest version of the ESX Server hypervisor and how VMware plans to cope with Microsoft(MSFT)'s entry with Viridian into
the market next year.
InformationWeek: VMware put ESX Server on a weight loss plan to get it down from two gigabytes to 32
megabytes in the just announced, embeddable, 3i version. How did you do that?
Rosenblum: We've typically included a version of
Red Hat Linux in ESX Server. That's because the hardware manufacturers put little embedded processors to control the fans and other elements of their
servers. They have agents reporting on their operation. They wouldn't write software that would allow those processors to interface to ESX Server,
but they had to do it for Linux. So we shipped a full Red Hat operating system as our management console.
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12.09.2007Novell patches Suse Linux kernel for VMware efficiency
Novell Monday released updates to its Suse Linux kernel designed to make the operating system more efficient when running on top of VMware
environments.
The upgrade to the Suse Linux Enterprise kernel lets it take advantage of paravirtualization techniques so it runs more
efficiently as a guest operating system. Specifically, Novell has built in support for VMware's Virtual Machine Interface (VMI)."The patch to the
kernel provides increased performance and better interoperability," says Carlos Montero-Luque, vice president of product management for open platform
solutions at Novell. The kernel patch is available in SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) 10 Service Pack 2, which can be downloaded.
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17.06.2008VMware to Give Away Server
Software
VMware, a company that
specializes in products that
allow users to run more than
one operating system on their
machines, is expected to
announce next week that it
will give away its GSX Server
software for free. The company
also offers ESX Server,
however that will remain a
for-pay product...
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03.02.2006VMware Completes Mac Virtualization Software
VMware on Thursday announced
it has completed development
of "Fusion," the
company's desktop
virtualization software for
Macs, which enables Apple
computers to run Windows or
Linux from within Mac OS X.
VMware said over 250,000
people had downloaded the
Fusion beta release since
December...
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02.08.2007Microsoft blogger compares VMWare ESX Server 3i to Windows Server Virtualisation
Dave Northey: I was reading
this article about the
up-and-coming ESX Server 3i from VMware.
It calls out a bunch on "new features" that we have either been doing for ages, or
have announced that we will have in Windows Server Virtualisation (WSV), when we ship Windows Server 2008 - I'm confused (seems like someone is
trying to introduce a load of FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).
They call out 64GB virtual machines and 128GB physical
machines. We'll do 64GB virtual machines with WSV and 64-bit Windows will work with systems with up to 1 Terabyte of physical memory. The reason
for this, if you're interested is that our hypervisor is 64-bit and ESX is still 32-bit.
They call out support for
virtualisation-aware (para-virtualised) Linux operating systems. We are working with both Novell and XenSource, so we'll do that too (we already
support both RedHat and SUSE Linux on Virtual Server).
There's more, but the 'funniest' is the reference to expanded hardware
support (storage and networking). Both Virtual Server and WSV use native Windows device drivers - have a look at
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com, you'll see that we already support over 6,500
storage items. Both our server virtualisation offerings (Virtual Server and WSV) are completely hardware independent - as long as there is a Windows
device driver, you're OK. VMware has a very small, limited sub-set of hardware that they can run on.
Just thought I'd call it
out - there's a lot of FUD out there - don't believe any of it.
Dave.
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12.10.2007VMware puts a virtual machine in your pocket
VMware has introduced a public
beta test of ACE 2 Enterprise
Edition, adding on many new
features (including the
ability to distribute virtual
machines on any portable USB
drive) over the previous
release which allowed users to
construct specific virtual
machines and then distribute
them. VMware Pocket ACE allows
users to store any number of
virtual machine images on USB
drives, as long as the user
includes the necessary free
version of VMware Workstation
6.0, which is automatically
installed and started when the
machine image is run.
The Windows version is
available as a hefty 273MB
download. Preconfigured VMware
ACE appliances for Windows
2003, Red Hat Linux, and SUSE
Linux are also available to
download, the latter two in
.rpm binary formats. Also
available is a 39MB download
for the VMware ACE Management
Server application, which
administrators can use to
tightly control how the ACE
virtual machine images are
used. Images can be managed
from central server, and
configured to be available
only to certain users, limit
the use of virtual ports and
devices, encrypt the entire
image for security and even
specify expiry dates for the
images.
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06.03.2007VMware unmasks next-gen hypervisor
As expected, server virtualization kingpin VMware will today take the wraps off its next generation hypervisor, ESX Server 4.0, and the related tools
for managing it. They're now called vSphere rather than Virtual Infrastructure.
The vSphere stack embodies a strategy and
product set that VMware used to call the Virtual Data Center Operating System, or VDC-OS. Now, says Bogomil Balkansky, vice president of marketing at
VMware, it goes by the name Cloud OS.
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21.04.2009Server Vendors To Embed New VMware On Servers
VMware this week is shrinking its flagship ESX Server virtualization software so it can be embedded in servers from vendors such as IBM,
Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
VMware is unveiling the software, VMware ESX Server 3i, along with other enhancements to its product
line, to its solution providers and an estimated group of 10,000 attendees of its VMworld conference, which starts Tuesday in San Francisco.
ESX 3i has all the functionality of ESX Server, but was shrunk to fit in 32 Mbytes of memory instead of the previous 2 Gbytes in order to
let it be embedded on server motherboards, said Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product marketing at VMware.
"That makes
it only 1 percent or 2 percent the size of a general purpose operating system," Balkansky said. "This has implications for reliability and security.
A smaller code base is more reliable. And it leaves less surface area for attacks."
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10.09.2007VMware Workstation 7 released with full Windows 7 support
VMware has announced the latest version it's flagship virtualization software - VMware Workstation 7 which is packed full of new features which
are huge - including full 3D graphics support for virtual machines. VMware workstation is compatible with over 20 operating systems out of the box,
and can run many other operating systems unofficially. As previously mentioned, the new VMware workstation comes with full 3D graphics support for
guest operating systems - meaning that if your computer can't play a game, but has the resources to run a virtual operating system well, you can
run an earlier version of Windows (or Linux) to play it.
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02.11.2009Last Friday's post (VMware ESX Server 3i)
Dave Northey: Looks like I've upset a few people. Sorry, that wasn't my intention.
I get to talk to a lot of people about a
lot of stuff. Virtualisation is one of them, and all I ever hear is VMware this and VMware that (and next to no one knows what Microsoft currently
offer - or have coming down the line).
I've posted a comment myself on
last Friday's post, but thought it
worthwhile posting this too:
So, in my defense (in an attempt to respond to all your comments)...
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15.10.2007VMware to get hypervisor certified by Microsoft
Virtualization competitors VMware and Microsoft have found common ground in a deal that will let customers receive technical support for Microsoft
applications running on servers virtualized with VMwares hypervisor.
There doesnt seem to be any official announcement, but a
Microsoft spokeswoman said Tuesday that VMware has joined Microsofts Server Virtualization Validation Program. This means that VMware will try to get
its hypervisor certified by Microsoft, and once that happens Microsoft will offer technical support for Microsoft applications running on VMware
servers. Its not clear when those support plans would become available.
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20.08.2008VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
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02.10.2006Intel, VMware Partner In Virtual Machine Migration
Intel on Thursday said it is working with VMware on technology that makes it possible to move software-running virtual machines from servers running
older Intel processors to the chipmaker's next-generation Xeon designs.
VMware is building support for Intel's FlexMigration
assist for virtualized environments in VMware's Vmotion technology, which is used to move running virtual machines from one physical server to
another. The collaboration is expected to help VMware customers move virtual machines to Intel's upcoming processors based on its 45nm scale process
technology, Jake Smith of Intel's Advance Server Technology Group told InformationWeek.
Intel is scheduled to ship in November
its first 45nm server chip built using 45-nanometer technology, codenamed Penryn. That release is expected to be followed in 2008 with Nehalem,
codename for Intel's upcoming microarchitecture. ..
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