Apart from the best-known advantages brought by desktop virtualization, such as cost savings and the improvement in the management of IT resources, the deployment of virtual desktops also facilitates the work of IT administrators when they have to to give support and install updates.
The effectiveness of the support service directly impacts in the business, since the time that goes by when a PC stops operating until the issue is repaired is an inactive time for the user, so the company’s productivity is automatically affected.
Red Hat and SUSE gave up Ext file system last year and started using Btrfs and XFS. For this reason, many users are wondering whether they should follow the steps of the two main professional Linux distributions in the market and stop using Btrfs on their PC. It’s been verified that Btrfs has really good advanced features which improve storage’s management and security. Thus, it is suitable for system administrators. Meanwhile, XFS seems to be the perfect solution for virtualization, data base, app and cloud environments, where speed and scalability are needed.
In one of our articles last week we talked about the importance of using multi-hypervisor management tools and that the team responsible for managing multiple hypervisors at the same time has a specific and appropriate training. Today we analyze how the management and administration policies and the road map of the virtual infrastructure should be addressed.
To configure an environment with multiple hypervisors, it is recommended to do it as consistent as possible. In order to get a simple management, one shoul adopt, if possible, similar policies and configurations for all deployed hypervisors, so that administrators can move easily from an environment to another.
Nowadays, virtualization administrators are increasingly facing the challenge of managing an environment with multiple hypervisors. Factors such as mergers, acquisitions and changes in budgets have resulted in the migration to competing hypervisor platforms. The management of multi-hypervisor environments is not easy, but there are some strategies that can make it more simple. We sum them up below thanks to an interesting article by SearchServerVirtualization
If you still need to buy some of them and you are evaluating the possibility of giving technology, we advise you to follow the recommendations of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and choose those products, software or subscriptions which do not have restrictions, give freedom to the user to share them and don’t force him to pay any license.
Are you a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 Pro user? In this post we explain how to enable the Hyper-V hypervisor in this operating system to deploy virtual desktops or to perform a dynamic allocation of RAM or to compact, extend and reduce volumes or use volumes of dynamic allocation of space.
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