Archive for October, 2008
So how important is LiveMigration/VMotion now?
One of Microsoft’s big marketing statements I’ve heard several times is that LiveMigration wasn’t that important since clients don’t change when they do work on hardware even with LiveMigration. I’ll cover why this in depth on why this is a flawed thought for an enterprise company in a future blog entry.
Along comes a critical use [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: hyper-v, VMware
HP BL495c – Virtualization Blade?
HP finally came out with the official information on the heavy duty blade for use in VMware environments. This blade for the c-Chassis is the BL495c which has 16 slots for Memory DIMMs and two AMD Opteron processors. Its the official Virtualization Blade.
There’s just a couple of gotchas here coming from someone that would like [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: hardware, Server Virtualization
Heeyyyyyy for da cool picture
Transitive software has a lower level of virtualization that VMware and Xen and Hyper-V don’t do today. That is virtualizing the CPU layer with a full abstraction layer, not a pass thru approach using Ring 0/Ring 3 the way the x86 Ring Architecture the way it was originally intended to be used. By this I [...]
In: VMware · Tagged with: VMworld2008