Ubuntu’s new file system for LXC, UDS Enterprise’s full support for XenServer and the presentation by our team at CRUE-TIC & RedIRIS VDI Conference were the most read posts during the past weeks.
Below you can find the links to these articles so that you may have a look at them:
Ubuntu 15.04 will come up with its own file system
UDS Enterprise 1.7 fully supports XenServer
UDS Enterprise at CRUE-TIC & RedIRIS Desktop Virtualization Conference
Canonical has introduced LXCFS, its own file system for LXC, which will be released with the next version of Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Verbet.
It will be available with Apache 2.0 license and it will provide the possibility to view Linux virtual containers and CPU or memory, among other information.
In addition, it will allow to boot LXC on Ubuntu in processes with and without privileges, thus adding some level of security.
If you want to try it before the next Ubuntu version is released, you can download the code on GitHub.
Source:
Phoronix
The new version of UDS Enterprise adds full support for XenServer, so it will be possible to deploy a VDI platform with UDS Enterprise and Citrix’s Open Source hypervisor.
In this way, the number of hypervisors supported by UDS Enterprise is enlarged; and XenServer joins the list along with vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM (oVirt/RHEV).
This new feature is incorporated in the 1.7 version of the multiplatform connection broker for Windows and Linux, that will be available during this Q1 of 2015.
The VDI architecture used by the University of Sevilla, the improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing an the new mobile virtual infrastruture have been the top 3 topics in our blog during the last two weeks.
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VDI architecture with oVirt, KVM & UDS Enterprise
Analysis: improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing
After VDI there comes VMI, the virtual mobile infrastructure
The Linux Foundation has released this week its second annual Guide to the Open Cloud, with a compillation of Open Source projects used by organizations to build from scratch its open clouds.
The report includes 18 new projects that are becoming increasingly important within the sector. Among them, we find oVirt virtualization platform and UDS Enterprise appears highlighted in this part of the guide (page 15) as one of the projects that actively supports this initiative endorsed by Red Hat. UDS Enterprise is compatible with oVirt and the use of both solutions, together with KVM hypervisor, enables you to deploy Open Source virtual desktops.
A few weeks ago we told you how the University of Sevilla achieved a significant cost saving migrating from vsphere to oVirt. Today we come back to this topic to describe the VDI architecture used by this organization to make the most out of its resources.
First of all, it is necessary to have a suitable chassis to the virtual infrastructure deployed. The University of Sevilla uses Dell Blade iron they already had and they have been incorporating Blade servers to add new elements to the infrastructure. In this way, the initial investment was not too expensive, and as you can extend it easity, it turns out to be a quite affordable solution and easy to pay off.
