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Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware

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Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type I and Type II hypervisors.virtualiq

Here’s what ToutVirtual says about their VirtualIQ Pro:

Enterprise Benefits

  • Compare and choose the right Hypervisor
  • Compare and choose the right Hardware platform
  • Plan for Host Capacity
  • Plan for Virtual Machine Capacity
  • Plan for Virtual Machine Density
  • Understand the Impact of Hypervisor
  • Get Visibility into Inter-VM, Intra-VM Resouce Dynamics
  • Manage Physical and Virtual Servers
  • Works without VMware VirtualCenter, Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager or System Center
  • Manage 5 CPUs and 25 VMs for FREE

Of course the free version has its limitations but there’s plenty going on in VirtualIQ Pro that makes it worth an evaluation, especially if you use more than one virtual platform: 

  • VMware ESX
  • VMware ESXi
  • VMware Server on Windows
  • VMware Server on Linux
  • VMware GSX Server on Windows
  • VMware GSX Server on Linux
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
  • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
  • Xen running on Novell SUSE Enterprise 10
  • Oracle VM
  • Citrix XenServer

Wow!

Originally posted 2009-04-05 17:57:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

August 6th, 2010 | Author: editor | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Blog, Citrix, ESX, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Tools | 7 comments

VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop?

Hello, I’ve been researching whether to use VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop for a large VDI deployment at my work. Recently I had both companies demo their products and I must say I was impressed with both. XenDesktop has a feature called FlexCast that intelligently adjusts the DVI solution to available bandwidth, where-as View has ThinApp which seems to be a move forward for App presentation, over Citrix XenApp. They both seem to do the job, but which one is really a better choice?

Can someone offer me their experience with then? Which one is better from a support, performance, managability  and price perspective?

Originally posted 2010-03-28 08:09:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

August 6th, 2010 | Author: editor | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Citrix, VMware | Leave a comment

Free Citrix XenServer or Free VMware ESXi

I remember two years ago when XenServer used to come as a free package in some Linux distributions, then Citrix scooped them up and I thought – all good things must come to an end.

xenserverWell, today I was reading through the virtualization news that shows up on VMinstall.org and I noticed an article about XenServer that caught my eyes, “Is Citrix the Real Challenge to VMware?” by Jeff Vance.

Hmm, I’m sure some would like to think so, but I think Microsoft Hyper-V will soon give VMware a run for their money as soon as they can get it to stop crashing and hanging up.

XenServer on the other hand has been around for a while and is slowly gaining more market shares from customers who want more than just free ESXi.215x149_ce_bluebutton

I visited Citrix.com and found a table comparing free XenServer with free ESXi and I thought – something must be wrong because Citrix is sure giving a lot away for free?

Then I realized their strategy takes VMware’s free ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 to the next level. Just like a drug dealer giving away free samples of “crack”, once you install and “Live Motion” a few times, you’re hooked and then the cash starts flowing for management tools. Capacity planning, server consolidation, monitoring and forecasting tools will all cost you dearly, so go on – just install and Live Motion, it’s fun, it’s cool and it’s free…

Originally posted 2009-03-02 19:10:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

November 21st, 2009 | Author: editor | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Blog, Citrix, VMware, XenServer | Leave a comment