This week the rumours about XenSource being swallowed by Citrix were increasing.

So it wasn’t a big surprise that Citrix today annouced that they signed an agreement to acquire XenSource a leader in enterpise-grade virtual infrstructure solution as stated at the website of Citrix.

With this move it will probably integrate XenSource into [...]

Justin Zarb at Tech-Ed Bloggers posted two Virtualization videos from Teched 2007 in Australia.

Quote:"So I will be posting some great Virtualization Video’s from TechEd 2007 over the next couple of days! These were two great Videos around Windows Server Virtualization (Which had more people hitting these stands than you could shake a stick [...]

At the moment I am preparing a new datacenter for the platform. All the current hardware is end of life and besides consolidating applications, moving the stuff to a new datacenter gives us the opportunity to upgrade the OS and applications as well. One of the things that popped up is moving the database of [...]

Some time ago I was converting a virtual domain with vm’s in Microsoft vmc(vhd)-format to VMware’s vmx(vmdk)-format. Some of them worked right out of the box after converting them. Others did not work, to be specific they worked up to some point at least they seemed to freeze when sending CTRL-ALT-DEL.

The strange thing was that not [...]

Together with ESX 3.0.2 VMware released VCB (VMware Consolidated Backup) 1.0.3.

This release of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) version 1.0.3, offers the following improvements:

Support for iSCSI Storage
VMware Consolidated Backup now supports iSCSI storage in addition to Fibre Channel storage. Virtual machines residing on any iSCSI arrays listed in the Storage/SAN [...]