Since the arrival of application virtualization I have been fairly supportive of the concept. It can really bring some benefits and solve some peoples integration issues.
Application Virtualization is not however the solution to all your problems and may even introduce new difficulties into your environment.
The last week or so I have been converting my Windows test environment from VMWare Server to XenServer 5.0. The process is really quite easy and covered by CTX116603.
I will briefly run through how to convert your Vmware virtual machines for importing into XenServer.
In an earlier post I mentioned that Citix were going to be releasing XenServer for free. The official release of this has now occured. Update 3, which was released from Citrix changes the licensing engine slightly allowing for the new free license to be applied. There is also an updated version for the XenCentre client.
You will need to applied these updates so that you can activate the new 12 month XenServer license.
There is a lot of talk about virtualization these days. Server virtualization, hardware virtualization, application virtualization and also storage virtualization.
What is storage virtualization? Storage Virtualization involves the pooling of storage resources of similar or different capability to create and present logical subsets of that storage to devices such as servers.
There are several different types of storage virtualization including:
