Hypervisor comparison – VMUG Galicia

Good morning everyone! today we will give a talk for the community of VMware Galicia users in Santiago de Compostela; where we will compare different hypervisors and see a little about their differences or their evolutions. I wanted to share the presentation with you all, I leave you a PDF link to read and another with the presentation as such (for Windows or Mac). By the way, I share the presentation with the crack Miguel Angel Alonso of JMG!!!

Convert VMs to XenServer

If we want to convert VMware Server VMs, VMware ESX, Microsoft Virtual Server or Microsoft Virtual PC to Xen Virtual Appliance Format (XVA) we must use the v2xva Virtual Disk Migration Utility application (a V2V app). We go to their official website and download the binary or the sources depending on our OS. (HTTP://tx.downloads.xensource.com/products/v2xva/), be careful that it is only useful to convert virtual machines with Windows from S.O. client and run it from a Windows XP/2003 R2 or Vista as administrator.

Installation, configuración y administración de Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer enables enterprises to make Windows and Linux virtual machines available quickly and easily, Manage machines and their related storage and networking resources from a single, easy-to-use management console. It is the product that will virtualize our company's operating systems from Citrix, whether for workstations or for server environments. XenServer is a product that Citrix acquired by buying part of XenSource (the leading company in virtualization through a technology called Xen hypervisor, Open Source Technology). So XenServer is the new Citrix product that uses virtualization with Xen hypervisor, is based on a thin layer of software called “Hypervisor”, is installed directly on the hardware or “BareMetal” and that separates hardware from virtual machines, The novelty of this technology is the use of paravirtualization that allows to obtain a high […]