Preview: VMware Infrastructure 3 update builds o
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| VI3 with ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5 beefs up server virtualization
| management with automated patching, virtual disk migration, planning and
| migration wizardry, and distributed power management; embedded ESX shows
| purple in the late beta n the base
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/12/50TC-vmware-vi35-preview_1.html
Virtually Speaking: Storage, the New Frontier
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| Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. Because it's redundant, there is no
| single point of failure, "connectivity is continuous, and [the app] finds
| another path in the network," Grandinetti said, noting that VMware already
| offers this capability.
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| Version 4.2 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (along with versions
| 3 and 4) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (as well as version 9) to meet
| demand for mainstream, production use. In addition, to simplify deployments
| and upgrades, Virtual Server tools have been packaged as an ISO, which
| appears to the administrator as a virtual CD ROM.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3715956
Related:
Virtualization: Everybody's Doing It, but Few Know How
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| "In the old days, you really just needed to understand the server," said Kirk
| Marty, a senior systems engineer at Jostens. "Now you have to understand not
| just the server, but also the command lines of the Linux operating system,
| networking, how switches work, storage and fiber connections."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59931.html
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