Citrix XenServer 5: Optimized Performance for XenApp Compared to VMware ESX 3.5u3
Posted on May 12th, 2009 in Industry News, Tips, Xen | No Comments »
Just got another report posted by Tolly Group:
Citrix XenServer 5: Optimized Performance for XenApp Compared to VMware ESX 3.5u3
Citrix Systems commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance of Citrix XenApp when running on Citrix XenServer 5 and compare that with XenApp running on VMware ESX 3.5u3.
Testing focused on system scalability and user quality-of-experience. This test report was approved for publication by VMware. The VMware End User License Agreement (EULA) requires such approval.
The testing was conducted in accordance with Tolly Common RFP #1101, Virtual Server Performance. That document is available for license and you can find more information about it on the Tolly Common RFP website.
Download the free Citrix/VMware report as below:
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ESXi 3.5 u4 Available Now
Posted on April 9th, 2009 in Announcement | No Comments »
Are you running any VMware ESXi free edition so far? It’s time to try it out or upgrade – ESXi 3.5 u4 available for download now!
Get a free license for VMware ESXi and build virtual machines in minutes with this easy-to-deploy, OS-independent hypervisor.
Running VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi in VMware Workstation
Posted on September 18th, 2008 in Tips, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
If you’re new to VMware ESX & ESXi product and you would like to know know more about the products, you can try on your desktop with VMware Workstation now.
Download VMware workstation, VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi and start your testing now!
Look at the video.
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Xen 3.3.0 is available for download
Posted on August 26th, 2008 in Industry News, Virtualization, Xen | No Comments »
According to Heise Online, the new free XEN version 3.3.0 is now available for download.
Basically the new version come with 2.6.18 kernel version of Linux as the host system.
The Xen 3.3.0 features including:
- Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
- HVM emulation domains (qemu-on-minios) for better scalability, performance and security
- PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
- Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
- Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
- Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
- CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models
- PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
- HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
- Device passthrough enhancements
- Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
- New qemu merge with upstream development
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
Download Xen 3.3 datasheet
