VMware vSphere 5 what’s new (Virtual IEF)
VMware announced vSphere 5 yesterday. This is the next generation of their Cloud Infrastructure Suite. Here’s a list of white papers and technical documents about the new products, features and...
View ArticleVMware licensing : vRAM entitlement explained (Think©Loud)
The release of VMware vSphere 5 comes with a new licensing model. This model is based on licensing “per CPU with vRAM entitlement limitation”. As I mentioned in my previous [...]
View ArticleEnhanced Storage vMotion in vSphere 5 with Mirror Mode (DeinosCloud)
This is a short post for those who are interested in deep technical details of one of the master architecture pieces introduced in the Enhanced Storage vMotion available in vSphere 5 Ent and Ent+...
View ArticleCisco, Intel and Citrix re-invent OpenStack networking for the Enterprise...
Over the last few months an additional subproject codenamed Quantum has emerged which deals explicitly with networking and has particpation from networking giants Intel and Cisco as well as from...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0: New Licensing (Virtual Aleph)
Hello all,here's a link to a White Paper from VmWare that explain the new licensing model for VmWare vSphere 5.The new pricing introduces the concept of "Pooled vRAM Entitlement"in the paragraph "Why a...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 2 - Storage vMotion (VMware vSphere Blog)
Storage vMotion allows the migration of running VMs from one datastore to another without incurring any downtime. It was first introduced as a mechanism to assist customers to move VMs from VMFS-2 to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0: What has changed for VMFS? (Yellow Bricks)
A lot has changed with vSphere 5.0 and so has one of the most under-appreciated “features”…. VMFS. VMFS has been substantially changed and I wanted to list some of the major changes and express my...
View ArticleTalking to SearchServerVirtualization about VMware Auto-Deploy in vSphere 5...
I recently talked with Beth Pariseau at SearchServerVirtualization.com about the auto-deploy feature in vSphere 5. This feature will make rapidly deploying multiple ESXi hosts much easier. Here is the...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0: Profile-Driven Storage, what is it good for? (Yellow Bricks)
By now most of you heard about this new feature called Profile-Driven Storage that will be introduced with vSphere 5.0, but what is it good for? Some of you, depending on the size of the environment,...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5 (knudt blog)
If you hadn't noticed, VMware announced vSphere 5 on 7/12. The announcement was well handled and I enjoyed watching the first hour. The follow-up sessions weren't working in my browser, so I wasn't...
View ArticleVMware CEO: no plans for multi-hypervisor management (Server Virtualization...
Despite hints in recent months that VMware may follow its competitors into multi-hypervisor management, VMware CEO Paul Maritz said at the vSphere 5 launch event in San Francisco yesterday that the...
View ArticleVCP5 vs VCP4: Comparing exam blueprints (vmDK)
Tuesday July 12th was a big day for VMware. They announced the VMware vSphere 5 product suite, restated their plans for enabling and accelerating private & public cloud adoption, revealed a change...
View ArticleVMware launches Cloud Infrastructure products (virtual-blog.com)
Yesterday as most of you know was the biggest launch in VMware's history. Being inside the company at this moment in time is very exciting, especially working specifically in cloud computing...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 3 - VAAI (VMware vSphere Blog)
In a previous post, I mentioned that one of the primary objectives of Storage enhancements in 5.0 is to make the management of storage much simpler. In order to do this we are trying to encourage...
View ArticleVMware announces vCloud Director v1.5 (virtual-blog.com)
VMware vCloud Director is the product used to provide cloud consumers with the ability to have self service provisioning and to deploy workloads without the need to understand the underlying...
View ArticleCisco Live chat with Abhinav Joshi of Cisco & Wade Holmes of VMware (The...
My week here in Vegas started with breakfast with Cisco’s Abhinav Joshi, VMware’s Wade Holmes, and NetApp’s Friea Berg. You probably already know this bunch from Twitter or their blogs, but for those...
View ArticleVMware vSphere 5: The BIG feature list (The VMguy)
As I was wading thru all of the new materials from yesterday, I thought it would be helpful to create a big list of all of the new features in vSphere 5.0. There were really only a few named in the...
View ArticleVote: Pooled vRAM entitlement licensing (VMwire)
One of the most important changes VMware introduced at yesterday’s Cloud Infrastructure launch was the new vSphere 5 licensing model based on pooled vRAM entitlement. It’s been almost one day since the...
View ArticleVMware’s #cloudtalk – Announcing Our Inaugural Twitter Chat (VMware vCloud Blog)
The #clouderati are certainly a vocal bunch, and if you spend even a small amount of time watching Twitter, you’re bound to see a few of them hash it out over the state of the cloud. Their comments are...
View ArticleAutomating ESXi 5.x Kickstart Tips & Tricks (virtuallyGhetto)
There are some minor changes with kickstarting ESXi 5.0 but the majority of your existing ESXi 4.1 kickstart configurations can be re-used with a few modifications. One of my goals during the vSphere...
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