The document summarizes HP's ProLiant Virtual Platforms powered by Citrix XenServer. It provides details on XenServer editions, the HP Select Edition which offers simplified deployment and management, supported server models, typical applications, and integration with HP tools for management, patching, migration and support.
My presentation on the paper: Xen and the Art of Virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield. Prepared for CSCI 297 - Advanced Operating System at GWU, Spring 2010
My presentation on the paper: Xen and the Art of Virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Tim Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield. Prepared for CSCI 297 - Advanced Operating System at GWU, Spring 2010
XenServer, Hyper-V, and ESXi - Architecture, API, and Coding_Humair_Ahmed_
XenServer, Hyper-V, and ESXi hypervisor comparison in regards to market share, architecture/installation, and APIs/coding. Technical details, demos, and code provided. Visit my blog at http://humairahmed.com/blog/.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. https://www.pass4sureexam.com/70-412.html
XenServer, Hyper-V, and ESXi - Architecture, API, and Coding_Humair_Ahmed_
XenServer, Hyper-V, and ESXi hypervisor comparison in regards to market share, architecture/installation, and APIs/coding. Technical details, demos, and code provided. Visit my blog at http://humairahmed.com/blog/.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. https://www.pass4sureexam.com/70-412.html
Weekly Market Snapshot, October 16, 2009Jeff Green
Earnings reports helped fuel stock market gains, although most contained relatively cautious outlooks. Retail sales fell in September, reflecting an unwinding of the “Cash for Clunkers” impact. However, the decline was less than anticipated. Ex-vehicles, building materials, and gasoline, sales advanced 0.5%, following a 0.7% gain in August. The figures are consistent with a moderate economic recovery. Inventories fell more than expected in August, suggesting that a slower pace of inventory reduction may not make as strong a contribution to third quarter 2009 gross domestic product (GDP) as had been expected. GDP will be reported later this month.
Presentación sobre Windows 2008 realizada en la Fundación Omar Dengo en el TechBoot Camp 2009.
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Microsoft Virtualization for VMware ProfessionalsEduardo Castro
Esta es la presentación utilizada en el WebCast de Semana de la Nube
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=es-AR&EventID=1032491907&CountryCode=AR
En este evento encontrará una introducción a la virtualización con productos y soluciones Microsoft para los VMware Professionals.
What's New In 2008 R2 Hyper V and VMM 2008 R2 - Updated Oct 2009Aidan Finn
This is the presentation I gave at the UK/Ireland MVP open day in Reading in October 2009. There is no NDA content in here. It's an updated and expanded version of the presentation.
XenDesktop Master Class - Live Installation of XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6Lee Bushen
Our “Quick-Start” session on XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 to see a live demo of a step-by-step, new-build, installation. A Recording of the Master Class is here: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/12582
SVR208 Gaining Higher Availability with Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clust...Louis Göhl
Come and learn about all the new enhancements that are going to be delivered in Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2. This session looks at improvements since Windows Server 2008 including an overview of Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), live migration, enhanced validation, PowerShell support, new HA workloads, improvements to existing workloads, supportability enhancements, and other exciting features designed to help you achieve even HIGHER availability for your Failover Cluster.
SVR205 Introduction to Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Syst...Louis Göhl
This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The session also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance on key areas like storage management, performance, and more.
2. Citrix XenServer Citrix XenServer offers a high performance, scalable platform for Windows and Linux server virtualization. XenServer delivers an open, proven and supported solution for server virtualization.
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Editor's Notes
ProLiant Virtual Console accesses and manages virtual machines Local (1:1) or remote management VM deployment via local or iLO virtual CD no need to install additional software to administer the server or virtual machines optional default settings means server and VMs are configured in minutes GUI interface, no command line required
How to get started, how to buy, etc.
HP PVC runs as the console for DOM0 for the lifetime of the XenServer integrated hypervisor hypervisor.
Can also use any templates present from HP
Performance Windows Operating Systems High Speed XenServer Network and Disk Drivers 2-6% overhead vs. running on bare metal hardware Linux Operating Systems Fully Paravirtualized Kernel 2-4% overhead vs. running on bare metal hardware Large Workload Support 64b architecture supports 32b and 64b VMs Large Memory Support 128 GB Physical Memory Up to 32 GB Per VM
Use of Enterprise Edition and XenCenter allows for tighter resource control: VMs can be prioritized
DL380 – need SAS to achieve 8 drives, less with SATA ML370 – need second controller and optional drive cage to get to 16 Direct Attached – requires additional controller, amount of storage depends on which MSA selected, recommend MSA 60 or MSA 70 Network –Server can be configured using iSCSI, NFS, or a Windows share to create storage on the network. ISO images for installation can be on NFS or Windows Shares, VM configurations and disk files can be on iSCSI or NFS shares. If running Enterprise version, then Resource Pools can be created using shared storage NOTE: Amount of memory allocated to VMs cannot exceed amount of physical memory in server – add 1GB to allow for memory constraints These recommendations are rough guidelines, what can be supported is dependent on the application running in each VM DL380 with a single dual-core CPU would need a minimum of 13 GB of memory to support 12 VMs. A fully loaded DL380 with 2 dual core CPUs and 32 GB of memory could support 24 VMs NOTE: figure how many CPU cores, then determine memory, then determine how many VMs can be supported These recommendations are rough guidelines, what can be supported is dependent on the application running in each VM
Available through software download or by purchasing Insight Control media kit Prices: $249 US list per X2ProLiant migration (P2ProLiant or V2ProLiant) $109 US list per X2V migration (P2V and V2V) Supports any x86 server as source server Supports VMs from VMware and Microsoft Planned future support for integrated hypervisors from HP (VMware ESX 3i and XenServer) in March 2008