Virtually Prepared

Amongst the myriad of ‘free’ virtualisation offerings (‘free’ until you need the management tools) I couldn’t help but notice Citrix have released their beta of a free P2V tool for XenServer (it imports VMDK files amongst other things). With VMware and Citrix no longer being the best of friends do we have a virtualisation silent assassin in our midst? Organisations already bought into the Citrix infrastructure can easily justify the investigation into another Citrix product whereas it’s harder to kick a small piece of work off to review ‘another vendor offering’. I’m not thinking about the big global companies but the SMBs who want to get on board with the Type 2 hypervisor. Just a thought.

http://www.virtualization.info/2009/04/citrix-unveils-xenconvert-20-technical.html

Following on from their previous documents discussing ESX in Workstation the guys have gone one better.

Go to their website (http://knowledge.xtravirt.com/) and download the PDF.

Ever needed a concise and definitive guide to VMware’s port requirements? Well, Pete Howard has just released this excellent overview diagram ideal for waving in front network teams and firewall admins.

Go here http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/phoward/.

Excellent stuff.