Flash flood: when smart storage teaches virtual machines to swim. You can't accuse California-based Tintri of choosing an ill-fitting name: it literally translates to "lightning" in Irish Gaelic, which begins to make sense when you discover that the company sells a flash-centric storage solution that it claims offers powerful and fast performance at a wallet-friendly price.
Tintri was co-founded in 2008 by its President and CEO Ken Klein, and Kieran Harty, who ran engineering at VMware for seven years beforehand. While working for the virtualization giant, Harty noticed that its customers were seeing benefits from virtualization on the compute side, but less so on storage, which was proving a huge "pain point". Tintri's main offering, VMstore, is a VMware-compatible, storage-focused rack-mount appliance that uses commodity SSDs and offers features such as 10GbE connectivity and cross-platform hypervisor support. Microsoft Reintroduces Physical-to-Virtual Conversion of Virtual Machines.
News Microsoft Reintroduces Physical-to-Virtual Conversion of Virtual Machines The third iteration of its Virtual Machine Converter addresses customer concerns from P2V removal in version 2.
Physical-to-virtual conversion is back in the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). Cloudtools Revolutionizes Virtual Machine Movement. Related:Press Release, News AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ Today, Cloudtools officially announced the launch of the company and availability of its first product, Shift, designed to revolutionize the process of moving virtual machines between cloud platforms and virtualized environments.
As part of the announcement, Cloudtools also announced the opening its headquarters in Austin, Texas, where CEO, Sam Cece will lead the team. For system administrators that rely on virtualization, moving virtual machines (VM) from one environment to another or even from one version of a virtualization platform to a newer version is a time consuming, complicated process, which requires a never ending cycle of planning, implementing and testing that consumes engineering time and energy. Shift changes everything. "For companies relying on virtualization, you either have a problem today or you're about to," said Sam Cece, CEO of Cloudtools.
Shift does all the work in the background. Are Containers the Beginning of the End of Virtual Machines? In-Depth Are Containers the Beginning of the End of Virtual Machines?
As Docker rises in importance, the idea of the traditional VM is being challenged. Virtual machines (VMs) are so firmly entrenched in the datacenter now that it's hard to remember a time when they weren't available. In fact, many younger IT pros may be only vaguely familiar with a time when a server had only one operating system and one application sitting on it. But five or ten years from now, could it be possible that the younger IT pros in that generation will be only vaguely familiar with VMs, with containers being the reigning virtualization technology in that datacenter? As system virtualization gives way to evolving and more elastic cloud-based platforms and services, the applications that run on these new infrastructures could someday push the outer limits of today's VMs and even the underlying OSes -- notably Linux and Windows.
Ken Cochrane, Engineering Manager, Docker Inc. "I think containers will be big. Windows 10 Technical Preview updated, boasts 7,000 changes and fixes - CNET. Breakr, a company that wants to bring fans and fandom together, says it's behind the latest overnight viral sensation.
Its CEO is stunned by the reaction. They used to send children up chimneys to clear the air during the winter. Now they get children to tweet in order to purge our minds of the realities of existence. You have probably talked about nothing else today, other than Alex from Target. He's a hashtag. However, he's also the construction of a new company called Breakr. Breakr, you see, is a company that claims to connect "fans with their fandom. " He told me that his company, which is still in beta, has been helping small content creators spread their content. In the case of Alex Lee (for that is Alex from Target's name), Leonares confessed: "Truly, we never thought it'd go this far, but it proved that with a strong fan base and rally the fan girls, you can. " Amazon Makes AWS Integration Easier for System Center Customers with SCVMM Add-in.
Earlier this year, Amazon added a management tool to its offerings that would allow for Enterprises to connect their VMware implementations to the Amazon Cloud.
Just a day later VMware took offense. In a blog post, the company's CTO, Chris Wolf, blasted Amazon, telling customers "Don’t be fooled by Import Tools disguised as Hybrid Cloud Management," and "Anyone who has been in IT long enough knows how easy it is for a tactical Band-Aid to unexpectedly become a permanent solution. " We've not heard much else since then, but I'd say VMware can't be happy about it, considering the company is intent on competing in this new Cloud world.
The Death of Virtual Machines? Not so Fast. Dan's Take The Death of Virtual Machines?
Not so Fast Dan argues that containers are great, but not always the right choice. By Dan Kusnetzky11/05/2014 I was reading Are Containers the Beginning of the End of Virtual Machines? Virtual Processing Software: A Definition Both OSVP software and VM software are types of virtual processing software. Processing virtualization does one of three things: encapsulates the operating system so that many virtual systems can run on a single system, links multiple systems together so that workloads will fail over if a system fails, or links systems together so an application or data can be spread across all of them for performance or scalability. There are five different types of virtualization technology in this layer (see The 7-Layer Virtualization Model or my book for a deeper look at the layer cake we call virtualization).
The benefits of this approach are performance and efficiency. Virtual Machine Security Ramped up for Microsoft Azure. News Virtual Machine Security Ramped up for Microsoft Azure "Real-time protection" against malware is promised for the cloud platform.
Virtual Machines (VMs) are often more difficult to secure than typical servers, given their transient nature. And fewer tools exist to do secure them, as well. AWS Ships an add-in for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Amazon is integrating EC2 management with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).
Microsoft Windows administrators can use the familiar System Center user interface to provision and configure virtual machines running on Amazon EC2. With enterprise customers moving workloads to cloud, they are looking for unified tools to seamlessly manage both on-premise and cloud resources. With this integration, customers can administer, monitor and manage virtual machines running in both the private cloud and public cloud environments.
Five Best Virtual Machine Applications. Virtualization and some coffee. How to Migrate/Move Virtual machines from 2008R2 Host to 2012R2 Host ? We were recently working on a project with my team to move and migrate several 2008R2 virtual machines from 2008R2 SP1 Hyper-V Host to the latest Hyper-V 2012R2 host and we faced a lot of troubles since the old import and export is not working anymore and not supported.
Hyper-V Virtual machines that used to be exported from Server 2008R2 Host were utilizing the version 1 WMI namespace which resulted in an export file (.exp) which was used to represent the exported virtual machine. When Server 2012 was released version 2 of WMI namespace was introduced and version 1 was deprecated (Server 2012 still compatible with old version 1 WMI namespace but no new features or additions will be added, Microsoft normally use deprecated as a step to fully remove and delete this feature on the next version) and then it was totally deleted in Server 2012R2. For a list of deprecated and removed features in 2012/2012R2, check this link. ENIAC KB: How to recover Hyper-V Virtual Machine manually (unsupported ways...)
One of these days I was testing one of my Hyper-Vs and because of a mistake of mine I removed all the VM associations to Hyper-V mmc console and SCVMM… Now what!!!! I knew that the supported way to add those machines back to the Hyper-V and SCVMM was through backup/Restore or I could import them using an “previous” export, but those machines were new VMs created only for the test propose, I had no backup or export of them.
How to import them back? Ok, no panic, first thing to check is the files, are the VM files still in place? Yes!!! Note: The GUIDs mentioned here belong to my virtual machine, in your network the GUIDs will differ. How to recover Hyper-V Virtual Machine manually (unsupported ways...)1 Option:Easy enough, you create a new VM choose the option “attach a virtual hard disk latter” or “Use an existing virtual hard disk” and then map the VM to the disk used before by the other “missing” VM, of course, you can copy the disk to the new VM folder to keep all files together.
Enjoy. EMC+ 1: tout VMworld 2: article EMC Hybrid Cloud Business Resiliency and the Hybrid Cloud.