Results for: OVF and cloud portability
XenServer 6.0 is here!
On behalf of the entire XenServer product team at Citrix, I’m pleased to announce general availability of the XenServer 6.0 release.As the “6.0” naming implies, this is a MAJOR new release of the product. Here’s a look at what’s new:Architectural ChangesThe Boston release is based on the open-source Xen 4.1 hypervisor. XenServer is another commercial product to ship with the Xen 4 hypervisor. For ...
XenServer 6.0 Beta Now Available
On behalf of the entire XenServer team, I’m pleased to announce availability of the XenServer 6.0 Beta (formerly "Project Boston"). The XenServer 6.0 beta program is fully public and available for anyone to download from mycitrix.com (a mycitrix.com account is required).For a review and live demonstration of what's new in 6.0, join us for a live webinar on July 7.Below is an overview ...
XenServer “Boston” Beta Program
XenServer "Boston" BetaOn behalf of the entire XenServer team, I'm pleased to announce availability of the XenServer Project Boston Beta. If you are a XenServer or XenDesktop customer with an active subscription advantage (SA) contract, you can download the full beta from mycitrix.com (downloads section) using the account associated with your SA contract. Note: if you are not a current customer you can also download the ...
VMware Project Redwood = Dead Wood?
It's widely acknowledged that the combined ingenuity of the Amazon Web Service team and the creative and fast-moving Xen community led to the creation of the first Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud - Amazon EC2 - as far back as 2006. So it has been interesting to see VMware attempt to co-opt the concept and turn a profound capability that ...
Xen and a Theory of RHEL-evance
It's a fast-moving world. I turn my back for a moment to log onto my XenDesktop, and before you know it, the Planet turns to KVM for Cloud Virtualization. Suddenly all those Xen, VMware and Hyper-V users must have switched to KVM overnight! Impressive.I quickly check the XenServer download stats and see that the needle is still rapidly rising... about 3,000 ...
OVF and software licensing
Cloud computing challenges many long-standing paradigms of the PC computer era. In my last post, I discussed the technical challenges facing the OVF standard in virtual system portability. Even if we assume that OVF will overcome the technical barriers, an even larger one looms: licensing.The dominant licensing model for PC software over the last 25 years centers on hardware systems. Whether a vendor strictly enforces ...
OVF and cloud portability
A persistent promise of the OVFstandard has been portability of virtual system images between the various hypervisors and their associated management tools. Up to now, this has been a relatively minor concern in the market because most "cloud computing" ventures seem to leverage a single vendor for the underlying infrastructure. This has held true for projects in the enterprise data center and for the pure ...
OVF – The Road Left to Travel
The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard has been under development at the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for several years. The primary goal has been to define an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines." In short, OVF provides a standard way to store VM's and associated meta-data outside the context of ...
XenConvert v2 Tech Preview – OVF and VMDK Support for XenServer
Our pursuit of interoperability and portability for virtual infrastructure has pased a new milestone: The Tech Preview of the free XenConvert 2.0 utility is now available for free download. We'd love to get your feedback on its features. For starters, XenConvert 2.0 supports direct import of VMware VMDK virtual hard disks into XenServer, including all v2v operations. It has also productized the Citrix Project Kensho implementation of ...
Kensho – Portability, Ubiquity… Now with Extra Freedom!
On July 15th, we at Citrix announced our work on Project Kensho, a set of tools that makes it easier to adopt the DMTF OVF (Open Virtual Machine Format) specification for virtual machine portability between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms. OVF will allow IT organizations and software developers to capture, deliver and import virtual machines in a common format; Kensho will make it easy to ...