All Posts Tagged With: "virtual machines"
Update On ESX 3.5 Issue: A Letter from Paul Maritz
New VMware CEO Paul Maritz has issued an official statement about the major bug plaguing customers who had updated to ESX / ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and experienced a serious problem yesterday due to a mistake in the licensing code.
13Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMajor Bug Kills VMware Powered Virtual Servers
Today’s a black day for VMware, and also (and maybe especially) VMware customers who upgraded their virtual servers with the new Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2. As of this morning, many could not power on VMotion or any of their Virtual Machines. The VI Client threw the error “A general system error occurred: Internal Error”.
12Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedSanbolic Bridges Hyper-V And Shared Storage Networks
Sanbolic today announced that Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtual machines can now be stored on a single shared storage area network (SAN) storage volume using Sanbolic Kayo File System. The virtual machines can then be moved independently between physical host servers using Quick Migration because all host servers have shared access to the virtual machines.
9Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Introduces Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Microsoft has announced the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool which aims to help organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organization’s IT infrastructure.
7Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedProxMox, The Open Source Virtual Environment You Didn’t Know
Jason Perlow over at ZDNet Blogs today wrote an interesting article about ProxMox, a Vienna, Austria-based Open Source turnkey virtualization server provider we weren’t aware of until this day. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is basically an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHyper9 Comes Out Of Stealth, Focuses On Letting You Find And Manage Virtual Machines
Hyper9, formerly known as InovaWave, provider of search-based software for virtual environment management, today announced its first product, carrying the same name as its parent company. Hyper9 will be free to download in September.
24Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedLooking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization
A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.
10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued
