The presentation at RedIRIS Technical Conference where the project of virtualization of computer classrooms at the Public University of Navarre with UDS Enterprise and Nutanix was presented is the post in our blog that got most visits during the past month of June.
Hypervisor platforms developed by Microsoft and VMware are two of the most commonly used proprietary solutions in virtualization projects. If you work in this sector, you surely know them quite well, but do you know exactly what are the differences between Hyper-V and ESXi? In this article we are going to try to analyze them taking as reference the latest version of both software so that you have clear which of these two solutions would be better adapted to the needs of your project.
The University of the Balearic Islands was not the only educational organization that wanted to share with all the attendees at RedIRIS Technical Conference their experience with the UDS Enterprise connection broker for deploying and managing their desktop virtualization project. The Public University of Navarra (UPNA) also explained how they approached the implementation of VDI, in his case with the UDS Enterprise + Nutanix joint solution.
One of the first questions that arise when a user decides to switch to Linux is what distribution would be the most appropriate for him. There is such an amount that in most cases it is a somewhat complex decision. DistroTest was launched with the aim of making this choice easier and that those who already use Linux can test in a very simple way different versions to the one they have installed. This web allows to test online and for free nothing less than 706 versions of 225 Linux operating systems.
How to fix the typical issues of the environment of students and administration and services staff with a desktop virtualization infrastructure. This was the starting point of the interesting presentation offered by Xavier Pons, Head of the Infrastructure Area of the Information Technology Centre of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), at the RedIRIS Technical Conference held in Seville at the end of past May. He narrated the experience of the Information Technology Center (ITC) of the UIB in the management of their VDI platform, which has helped them to tackle the complexity of a heterogeneous and complex IT environment.
