Interesting Virtual News and Posts - #2

Hotlink SuperVISOR – vCenter for Hyper-V, KVM, and XenServer

Hotlink announced a new version of its SuperVisor solution. Hotlink 1.5 allows you to manage vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat KVM, and Citrix XenServer all from within you vCenter console. Additionally, Hotlink 1.5 adds the following extremely useful functinality:

• Snapshot Manager – Administrators can create, utilize, and manage cross-platform snapshots inside the VMware vCenter console – providing a single point of management for heterogeneous virtual machines
• Template Manager – Users are able to create and deploy a single template across all target hypervisors, eliminating the time-consuming and inefficient process of building and maintaining platform-specific virtual machine templates
• Homogenous Live Migration – VMware vCenter is now extended to provide live migration (e.g. vMotion) of Hyper-V, XenServer, and KVM virtual machines within homogeneous clusters – enabling the robust VMware management capabilities to be utilized for cross-platform, critical workloads

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Microsoft releases beta of Virtual Machine Converter Tool

The tool can convert VM’s and VMware Virtual Disks (VMDKs) from vSphere 4.1 and 5.0 to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1, uninstalling the VMware tools and installing the Hyper-V integration services while converting. It also supports offline conversion from VMDK to the Microsoft VHD format.

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Extracting SSL Thumbprint from ESXi

3 methods to avoid mistakes during the inventory of SSL Thumbprints.

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VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram

VMware published the VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram that provides a comprehensive look into the ESXi memory management mechanisms and reclamation methods.
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vSphere Security Hardening Policy and SRM 5Post describes issue with Site Recovery Manager 5.0 that requires to have VIX API enabled on all virtual machines. But this option should be disabled according to the VMware Security Hardening Guide. The author has organized a survey to see whether it can be a problem for you.

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That's just funny (useful dialog in vCenter)