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Compared to VMware ESX Enterprise Edition, business continuity and high availability features are lacking when deploying Citrix XenServer “out of the box.” Specifically, XenServer does not have the built in equivalent to VI3′s HA feature. Also missing is a solution similar to VMware’s soon to be released Site Recovery Manager (SRM). However, Marathon Technologies and XenSource (now a division of Citrix) have worked together to develop everRun VM as a enterprise class answer to fault tolerant availability for Windows virtual machines hosted on Citrix XenServer. According to Marathon’s Director of Products, Michael Bilancieri, at a recent Atlanta “Virtualization for the Real World” event, the integrated solution will be generally available sometime in the 2008 Q2/Q3 time frame.

Quoting from the Best of VMworld (more on this award later in this post) white paper downloadable from the everRun link above:

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One of the announcements this week from VMworld Europe was that ESX 3i will begin shipping integrated in Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, and IBM industry standard servers in the next 60 days. The following is a VMware VIP Partner Bulletin email I received. Check out the links to the hardware manufacturer’s individual announcements in the body of this email.

Dear Richard,

Today, February 26, 2008 at VMworld Europe, VMware announced agreements with the world’s largest systems providers—Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM—to embed VMware ESX Server 3i across broad lines of servers to accelerate the proliferation of virtualization across companies ranging from small business to large enterprises. These partners are expected to commence shipping their respective industry-standard servers integrated with VMware ESX Server 3i within the next 60 days.

Last year we previewed this strategy with you when we announced the latest release of VMware Infrastructure 3 and ESX 3i. Combined, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM accounted for Read the rest of this entry »

Try to see it once my way
Everything Zen
Everything Zen
I don’t think so

Bush – Everything Zen

Xen, XenSource, XenServer, and Zen. What are they? Which one do I use to virtualize my servers? What is Citrix’s product and how does it compare to VMware? These are my reasons for writing this post. Frankly, I was confused. After some intense meditation I decided to figure it out. Unfortunately, Lakers coach Phil Jackson was not available to help.

Wikipedia was where I started my journey. At first I was even more confused when I landed on the Xen (disambiguation) page: Read the rest of this entry »

With the new release of VI3.5 yesterday VMware is offering special pricing in the form of Acceleration kits designed for small and medium sized businesses. The kits consist of licensing for multiple ESX hosts packaged to get you started with virtual infrastructure. The acceleration kits offer discounted pricing when comparing the cost of buying single ESX licenses which are sold in 2 processor increments.

The following are descriptions of the kits from a VMware marketing email I received: Read the rest of this entry »

Session discussion questions: 

Replicate using EMC SRDF

manually change ip addresses of replicated machines?

Use F5, dynamic dns to self update or auto update ip addresses.

Host based replication

Replistor

Double take

Must have vm or host at both the primary and the secondary site for HBR. Must also pre-setup the networing, etc.

VMware is doing more with the SAN based relication

Site Recovery Manager will be able to interface with the replication product’s manager server 

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