Hyper-V, ESXi, oVirt VDI & Open Source software

Hyper-V, ESXi, oVirt VDI & Open Source software

We’re back to school and to start the week we’re compiling the most read articles in our blog during the summer. The comparison between Microsoft‘s and VMware‘s hypervisors, the deployment of an Open Source desktop virtualization infrastructure with oVirt* and the list of the top 2015 Open Source software have been the most popular posts.

Find below the links to these articles so that you can keep up to date with the most outstanding topics related to VDI and Open Source according to our followers:

FreeBSD available in Azure Marketplace

FreeBSD available in Azure Marketplace

Microsoft has announced the availability of FreeBSD in Azure marketplace and official support as a guest on Hyper-V, meaning Microsoft Support will answer any question and will fix any issue reported by customers.

The company explains in the official blog that many virtual appliance verndors base their products on FreeBSD operating system, and that’s why they decided to develop FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure.

Windows containers & Hyper-V nested virtualization

Windows containers & Hyper-V nested virtualization

This year, the term Hyper-V nested virtualization is everywhere, and not only because it is a new Hyper-V Server 2016 feature, but because od the implications on another technology whic is becomng more and more popular: containers.

The support for containers is one key benefit of Hyper-V nested virtualization, since it brings a new take on VMs, with less overhead and more flexibility to develop and deploy applications.

Tips to manage Hyper-V

Tips to manage Hyper-V

Are you a Hyper-V user? Don’t miss these useful tips by Virtualization Review:

-Use PowerShell to create a list of all your virtual machines(VM) including name and IP address without logging or going to networking tab.

-Enable router guard and DHCP guard options to avoid unauthorized networking accesses. You can do it using VM libraries, PowerShell or Set-VMNetworkAdapter cmdlet.

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