VM-Aware

I have no idea how much creditability this story has, but I suspect that IBM will want to get back into the forefront of virtualisation so could have some legs.

Check it out here.

Yes you did read it correctly, the guys over @ VMware courtesy of the VROOM! blog have published some lab results of Exchange 2007 being pushed on an ESX 3.5 box.

The results are extremely positive and 8 VMs running 2000 mailboxes each are very comfortably served on ESX 3.5. Admittedly the ESX host is an IBM x3850M2 with 4 quad processors and 128GB of memory, but nonetheless impressive it is.

Read all about it at source here.

I don’t like to show favouritism, but IBM do make some incredible kit. I know it isn’t cool to get excited about servers, but I had the privilege of seeing a new M2 version of the excellent x3850.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me, but some of the design enhancements were incredible.

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VMware have just released an updated SAN HCL and it now offers full support for the N3000 series of IBM iSCSI based storage subsystems.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_guide.pdf

This is definitely becoming a viable alternative to IBM’s FC range of storage subsystems.

I stumbled across a new feature overview of what was esxReplicator, but is now called vReplicator:

http://www.skonomusic.co.uk/blog/files/Replicator_Overview.pdf

http://www.skonomusic.co.uk/blog/files/Replicator_Overview.doc

There are a number of very cool new features, that make it an even more salable product than it was before, including: (more…)