Microsoft just published the beta version of a new Infrastructure Planning and Design guide. Titled Dynamic Data Center , this 43-pages blueprint on what Microsoft defines “a combination of automation, control, and resource management technology with a well-defined topology of virtualisation, servers, storage, and networking hardware”. The guide is divided in five main parts: Determine the Dynamic Data Center Scope This part helps to define the scope and determine the workloads that will be included in the Dynamic Data Center project. It’s divided in three steps: Determine the proposed initial workloads for the Dynamic Data Center.

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Exactly one year ago the Quest subsidiary Vizioncore made clear its decision to extend the focus to hypervisors from Microsoft and Citrix. At that time the company announced the upcoming support for Hyper-V and XenServer in the new vControl enterprise management console. Twelve months later, according to ComputerWorld , Vizioncore is getting ready to further support VMware competitors and unveils that its performance monitoring product, vFoglight, will support Hyper-V by mid-year and XenServer within the end of 2010.

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Now that both Virtual Iron and Sun acquisitions are complete , Oracle owns three hypervisors, a couple of virtualisation-friendly enterprise management consoles and a connection broker. What the company is missing is everything else around the hypervisor, from capacity planning to VMs backup. Oracle may decide to own the missing pieces, trying to rival the impressive VMware portfolio, or work to build a reach ecosystem, trying to convince several third parties to become virtualisation partners. And while it’s true that the VMware aggressive expansion is pushing its partners in new directions, most vendors are mostly looking for deals with Microsoft or Citrix. For these firms, focusing the limited R&D resources on Oracle VM is a risky move considering its scarce adoption after more than two years on the market.

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NComputing today announced that the company’s full product line will support the new Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 operating system from Microsoft. NComputing virtual desktop kits are based on the company’s vSpace desktop virtualization technology and are available in three product lines which are designed to bring ultra low-cost computing to customers ranging from enterprises to small… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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TechTarget just published an article about the upcoming VMware View 4.5, expected later this year (virtualisation.info heard unconfirmed rumors about this summer). The most interesting part of that piece is that ThinApp will be released as part of it, and that it will support server-side applications. So far no company except the US startup AppZero (formerly Trigence) has claimed capability to virtualize multi-tier, mission critical server workloads through application virtualisation technologies. Besides AppZero, the only other company that is known for working in this area is Microsoft, which disclosed its plan for a server-side version of App-V in January 2008 and showed a first demo in May 2009 at its MMS conference. So far Microsoft didn’t disclose any release date for such version of App-V

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Paragon technology Group, provider of data security and data management solutions, has released Paragon virtualisation Manager 2010 Personal. The program provides the user with the complete set of tools to easily perform any migration operation to the majority of virtual machines, including Sun Virtual Box, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual PC 7, VMware Player and Workstation 4.0-7.0 and… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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A number of things can be said about virtual appliances (VAs). For a start, they can be a powerful vector to quickly deploy applications without the burden of setting up a possibly complex environment, giving a kick-start to a project or testing new products in a timely fashion. Virtual appliances are being also marketed as a mean to reduce hardware proliferation for uni-tasker machines, something small and medium enterprises are quickly growing tired of. However, since in this column we’re addressing security issues in the virtualisation domain, that’s where we’re going to focus.

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This Tuesday Microsoft released its first security bulletin for Hyper-V . The vulnerability, which could lead to a Denial of Service (DoS), consists in a malformed sequence of instructions that a locally authenticated user has execute on a guest operating system.

Veeam just released the third major version of its popular file manager for VMware ESX hosts: FastSCP. Version 3.0.2 introduces support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Interestingly, the company reports that FastSCP now has a user base of over 120,000 virtualisation professionals. This audience was conquered after a little more than three years: FastSCP 1.0 was released in October 2006 while version 2.0 arrived in February 2007 .

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At the end of January Microsoft silently updated its Linux Integrated Components package to version 2.0, introducing the long awaited support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems in Hyper-V. Microsoft announced future support for Red Hat operating systems in July 2009, since the open source vendor joined the Server virtualisation Validation Program (SVVP). Customers had to wait no less than seven months to finally have a version of Hyper-V Linux Integrated Components that supports RHEL 5 (including 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 versions, both 32 and 64bit). Like for Novell SUSE Linux, Microsoft doesn’t include in the package the optimized drivers for mouse.

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