vSphere 5:0 vMotion Enhancements (Yellow Bricks)
**disclaimer: this article is an out-take of our book: vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive** There are some fundamental changes when it comes to vMotion scalability and performance in vSphere 5.0....
View ArticleHow to determine your vRAM footprint in vCenter (The VMguy)
Unless you’ve been under a rock this past week you have probably heard about the licensing changes that VMware has delivered with vSphere 5.0. Many of my customers have reacted negatively to the new...
View ArticleVeeam launches research site on virtualization adoption (virtualization.info)
Veeam announced on July 17th the availability of an index, named V-Index, which measures the virtualization penetration rate in enterprise data centers. The V-index was performed in Q2 2011 and...
View ArticlePaaS Platform experience – Red Hat OpenShift (Virtualization Practice)
As mentioned in a couple of recent posts, I have been building a prototype application using Open Source technologies that I plan to install on a number of available PaaS cloud platforms. The...
View ArticleWhat’s new? (Yellow Bricks)
I had a lot of trouble finding the vSphere 5.0 What’s New whitepapers so I figured I would list all of them as I probably wouldn’t be the only one finding it challenging to get all of these. These are...
View ArticleVMware will shop ‘til they drop (Server Virtualization Blog)
VMware intends to keep making acquisitions and hiring new employees at its newly expanded campus in Palo Alto, Calif. That was the word from officials during VMware’s quarterly earnings results call...
View ArticleHBR (Host Based Replication) CLI for SRM 5 (virtuallyGhetto)
Host based replication (HBR) is a new feature in the upcoming SRM 5.0 which gives user the ability to replicate VM’s between dissimilar storage. Traditionally, SRM mainly relied on array-based...
View ArticleTesting VM Monitoring on vSphere 5.0 (Yellow Bricks)
I was testing VM Monitoring and needed to trigger a Blue Screen of Death. Unfortunately the “CrashOnCtrlScroll” solution did not work so I needed a different solution. I finally managed to get it...
View ArticleTeam Fusion: OS X Lion spotted in the wild! (VMware End User Computing)
We have been using OS X Lion since in its early developer preview releases and all of us on the VMware Fusion team are amped about the release and all of the exciting new features that are now...
View ArticleVMware Boot Camp Day 2 - Storage Deep Dive (VMware End User Computing)
Today we unleash part 2 of our FREE 9-part boot camp training series. As a reminder, these our on demand sessions. So, if you missed yesterday's overvew, go here for more info. Today's session takes a...
View ArticleOS X Lion spotted in the wild! (Team Fusion)
We have been using OS X Lion since in its early developer preview releases and all of us on the VMware Fusion team are amped about the release and all of the exciting new features that are now...
View ArticleDoes the new 5.0 ESXCLI eliminate the need for vCLI? (ESXi Chronicles)
I’ve been asked several times if the new ESXCLI command in 5.0 eliminates the need for vCLI. It doesn’t, as a matter of fact the new ESXCLI command is part of the vCLI. I think where the confusion...
View ArticleMicrosoft gives sneak preview of upcoming features for the next version of...
Until now, most of the news of the next version of Hyper-V focused on Microsoft integrating the technology in its next version client OS, Windows 8. During its annual World...
View ArticleVMware and IBM: New Solutions for Your Cloud (VMwareTV)
VMware and IBM: New Solutions for Your Cloud VMware CTO Steve Herrod talks about new solutions for your cloud with IBM and the next generation IBM XIV Storage System. www-03.ibm.com From: vmwaretv...
View ArticleCloud Operations Manager released by VMTurbo (ESX Virtualization)
After the Community Edition of VMturbo, the full product hits the GA as well. Few weeks ago I reported about a community edition – a free product from VMTurbo which is not time limited, or host number...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 New .vswp file & Storage Tax on VDI (myvirtualcloud.net)
Virtual Machine swap files have been around since the early ESX days and overtime we have learnt how to play with Memory Reservations to constrain their maximum size and reduce storage footprint. This...
View ArticleScale Up with VMware vSphere 5: “I’m Not Dead Yet!” (blog.aarondelp.com)
Well, what a crazy two weeks. It looks like Kevin Bacon became a VMware employee this week: Since this post will be long and filled with numbers, here’s a summary: The cost difference to license VMware...
View ArticleOS X Lion can’t connect to Iomega IX4 NAS workaround (vinf.net)
Today a received my new Mac Book Pro, it shipped with OS X Snow Leopard but by coincidence it arrived on the day Lion was released in the App Store so being an early adopter (read gadget freak) I...
View ArticleRegister for VMworld sessions ASAP or miss out (vinf.net)
This year VMware are enforcing session registration for VMworld, my understanding is that if you don’t register and a session is full, you wont get in!! this is a good thing IMHO, in previous years...
View ArticleQNAP TS-859U-RP+ Review (virtualfuture.info)
This is the fifth post in the SMB/LAB NAS review. This review compares the following products on features and performance: - Cisco NSS324 - Iomega IX4-200d - Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 - QNAP TS-859U-RP+...
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