Friday Afternoon Links

So I don't post a link round up that often but we had a bunch of good ones come through the system today.

This one is a bit older but if you are looking for a short intro video to XenCenter (think Xen's version of VirtualCenter).

VKernel's tools (Capacity, Chargeback, Modeler and Search) are all built on the VIM API.

So we move on to the XEN API (vs. the XenCenter API).

Finally kudos to Roger Levy for pointing out the Mono project - where folks can run .NET applications on non-Windows (i.e. Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. ) hosts/vms.

For fun, imagine a use case scenario where you to run .NET on Windows using MONO vs. Windows.

On to other Hypervisors (well Hyper-V's) - Microsoft announces a free download of Hyper-V servers - thats Microsoft-based Virtual Machines without any Windows 2008 in the way.

Lenovo announces their server lineup.

“With ThinkServer Lenovo delivers exceptionally engineered hardware and easy-to-use software all developed specifically for the SMB customer,” said Marc Godin, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Business Unit, Lenovo.

I love when a VP of Enterprise Business is the quote used for SMB customers.