VM-Aware

VMware recently published an article on the Virtual Reality blog that raises some interesting points as to why VMware is better than Xen & Hyper-V.

Some of the areas that get particular analysis are:

• Uptime
• Direct driver model
• Memory management

More interesting still are some of the comments to post, have clearly been made by Citrix & Microsoft employees or people with a vested interest.

I find some of the points amusing, but my 2 penneth worth is thus:

• No VMotion or equivalent = not production ready

I think that this in itself is a good enough reason to use VMware over anything else.  There are a multitude of other reasons, that hundreds of posts discuss, but this is the one for me.  Even after all these years, the ability to transfer one running VM from one host to another amazes me.

It’d be interesting to see what people think, so please do comment and see if we can get a debate going.

Check out the Smart Citrix Client tool that was written by the guys at Virtual Technologies Software.

A really cool tool that allow fast and simple connection to a MetaFrame Server or a published application and to export the connection to an ICA file.

Works perfectly with lots of customisable options:

• Display Settings
• Local Devices
• ICA Cache

Brilliant and it just works. Download it here.