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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Lanamark is a Canadian startup that entered the capacity planning market in June 2008 . It is led by Mark Angelo , coming from PlateSpin and VMLogix. Compared to most of its competitors, Lanamark offers a hosted capacity planning suite that is available only to its partners. VMware is the only other company in this space that restrict the usage of its hosted Capacity Planner to the channel. So far the Lanamark platform has been available only on a project-basis: a PSO requires access to the Suite to complete a certain project, like a desktop virtualisation assessment, and it’s charged accordingly.

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Xsigo Systems today announced that Avaya, a global enterprise communications systems provider, has deployed Xsigo virtual I/O as part of a recent virtualisation deployment that supports the company’s software development teams. Virtual I/O was seen as critical to meet the project’s server utilization and continuous uptime objectives that would help to accelerate the company’s engineering efforts… This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]

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