Results for: OVF and software licensing
Getting a Quicker Start with XenDesktop 5
As part of the Americas Strategic Alliances team at Citrix I spend a lot of my time working with partners and customers on desktop and server virtualization proof-of-concepts so in this blog I thought I would bring together a collection of "goto" XenDesktop 5 resources and a dash of guidance for those getting started with a XenDesktop 5 POC. So not to waste time ...
Migrating a XenDesktop environment from VMware to XenServer
I have had a recent need to migrate a working XenDesktop environment from VMware over to XenServer.Following are some guidelines that can be used by most anyone who is in this situation.A video companion to this article can be found at the end. The (fully) Virtual Environment:XenDesktop 4 Desktop Delivery Controller (Windows 2003 R2, x64, 2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 1 NIC) Licensing Server (Windows 2008, x86, 1 vCPU, ...
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 ...
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 – 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 ...
Kensho, Enlightenment and Hyper-V
I'm just back from the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego, which featured a superb track on virtualization. One of the highlights was a talk on the challenges in security resulting from virtualization, by Alessandro Perilli of virtualization.info. If you haven't seen him present before, make sure you do. Unbiased, insightful, technical and superbly articulated. The Burton team did a great job too, including sessions on storage, ...