Category Archives: Microsoft

vCenter Host Gateway Appliance - Overview and Deployment.

vCenter Host Gateway (distributed as a virtual appliance) is a vCenter Server feature that lets you manage virtual environments that consist of various types of hypervisors. In this post you will find answers for the following questions: vCenter Host Gateway requirements vCenter Host Gateway 3rd supported hypervisors How to deploy and configure vCenter Host Gateway… Read More »

Fast migration (conversion) VMs between hypervisors by NetApp Shift.

NetApp created a  Project Shift which allows customers to change the virtualization platform their VMs run on without migrating any data (of course VMs have to be located on NetApp storage). Shift currently supports Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Physical (V2P) but also Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations between Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V… Read More »