Author: rlevchenko

Linux Integration Services 4.1

Get a little more from  Linux guests on Hyper-V and Azure.

New version of LIS with the latest bug fixes, features and performance improvements is available to download .

LIS 4.1 for Hyper-V provides the additional functionality over LIS 4.0 

  • Installable on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 7.2
  • Installable on CentOS 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 7.2
  • Installable on Oracle Linux 7.2 when running the Red Hat Compatible Kernel
  • Hyper-V Sockets
  • Manual Memory Hot-Add
  • SCSI WWN
  • lsvmbus
  • Uninstallation script

LIS 4.1 is applicable to the following guest operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2-5.11 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0-6.7 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0-7.2 64-bit
  • CentOS 5.2-5.11 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit
  • CentOS 6.0-6.7 32-bit and 64-bit
  • CentOS 7.0-7.2 64-bit
  • Oracle Linux 6.4-6.7 with Red Hat Compatible Kernel 32-bit and 64-bit
  •  Oracle Linux 7.0-7.2 with Red Hat Compatible Kernel 64-bit

For more information , please use this link to download full description (Linux Integration Services v4-1.pdf)  and RPMs/ISO files

Windows Azure Pack Roadmap and Future Support

Microsoft has recently published their vision and plans for the future of Windows Azure Pack. This document called as “Windows Azure Pack Roadmap and Future Support” and must be taken into consideration by any service providers who has datacenters based on WAP and related components (SC, Windows Server).

You can download the full version of roadmap here.

Here I’m just citing the most important quotations:

Product support for WAP and the current version of System Center will continue to be available until the end of 2022. Table 1 summarizes the product support lifecycle for the main components in a WAP cloud deployment.

windows azure pack support

Microsoft Azure Stack brings Azure to service provider datacenters so that they can accelerate time to market and expand the addressable market for their services portfolio. Application developers can maximize their productivity using a ‘write once, deploy to Azure or Azure Stack’ approach. Microsoft Azure Stack will be launching in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2016

Service Providers should continue to use Windows Server Hyper-V for highly virtualized environments (for example, virtualizing their most demanding workloads) along with Windows Azure Pack and System Center for management. More importantly, they should sell and support what is available today that end customers understand and ask for, and then prepare for future evolution of technologies.

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