Month: November 2009

Using Citrix Branch Repeater (WanScaler Virtualized!)

We start, for those of us who knew the Citrix WANScaler product which is a physical appliance, Citrix has now renamed this product to Citrix Branch Repeater. This product is available in its apliance version as until now and also in an apliance under a Microsoft Windows operating system 2003 o Windows 2008. This product and its family are traffic optimizers, This is, if we have several delegations and there is traffic between them, With these products we can save exaggerated times when sending files or any type of traffic, since Branch Repeater will optimize all traffic that passes through, based on package optimization, by packet frames, caches data structure, and when more packages with the same patterns pass through, that data will not be sent, since he has them searched.

Parallels Desktop 5 for MAC

If a few days ago, we saw the new VMware Fusion 3.0, today we will get up to date with the Parallels Desktop product 5 for MAC. Seemingly, both programs, Direct competition, they seem to have the same functionalities, So we will try to reveal the differences so that we can lean towards one of the two. First of all, is to request a demo license to test it (They are a bit rats, They only give us 14 days), If we like it, then we can buy it ;). To do this,, we must register on the Parallels website

VMware Fusion 3.0 – Installation, Configuration and functionalities.

Now that I've moved into the wonderful world of MAC, I'm in a position to explain a little about the VMware Fusion 3.0. This version of a few weeks of life, You can download it with a trial of 90 dias de la pagina web oficial de vmware. I will try to teach how to: · Download and install the app on your Mac. · Creating a WINDOWS Virtual Machine 7 (New acquisition of the Fusion). · Machine functionalities and visualization.

Configuring VMware Distributed Power Management or VMware DPM

VMware Distributed Power Management is one of the real benefits of having a virtual environment for me, since with this, we will be able to reduce electricity consumption in our data center by a lot. VMware DPM Allows Unnecessary ESX Hosts to Be Powered Off, and when virtual machines are loaded and require more physical servers, these start automatically. All of this would be achieved in a DPM-enabled DRS cluster. The power consumption of a server is 15W when it is in Standby mode and depending on the server and its components it can vary approximately between 300W and 500W when it is booted. Starting from this, we can calculate how much we can save if we opt for VMware and set up a VMware DRS cluster + VMware DPM. Example: