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Do you use the Distributed Switch?
I am at VMworld 2010 Copenhagen this week and have noticed through informal customer surveys and conversations that the use of the Distributed Switch is low when compared to other vSphere features....
View ArticleVMware vSphere Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification
Are you a government customer considering or already running vSphere? Good news! vSphere has just received the highest-level security certification possible. Read more about it here. -Mike
View ArticlevMotion - A Trip Down Memory Lane
Cool post yesterday that goes back in time to the creation of the original VMotion. We have since relabeled its name at VMware and enhanced it quite a bit with the 4.1 release. None the less, vMotion...
View ArticleESXi Convergence - Are you prepared or is this no big deal?
Many of already know that the delivery of the next version of vSphere means the ability to deploy virtualized hosts on the ESXi architecture rather than having the choice of either ESXi or ESX...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 Wins CRN Product of 2010 Award
CRN was most impressed by vSphere's new memory compression and scalability with the 4.1 release. I'd like to give a personal thanks to everyone at VMware that made 4.1 possible. It was truly a team...
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vSphere 4.1 Wins InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year Award
On the heels of winning the CRN award last week, vSphere 4.1 captured an InfoWorld 2011 Technology of the Year earlier today. InfoWorld focused on the product's ability to deliver functionality as...
View ArticleVMware Partner Embotics Pushes Out Hyper-V Support Due to Greater vSphere...
I saw this one this morning and wanted to share. I immediately thought of that CC Music Factory song that is titled something like "Things that Make You Go Hmmm" but then my next thought was "Yup,...
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VMware Go™ Pro Releases A New Version Containing Two New Features to Make...
A new version of VMware's Go Pro (VMware's web-based service to guide users of any expertise level through the installation and configuration of VMware vSphere Hypervisor) is now generally available,...
View ArticleSUSE Linux Enterprise Server For VMware Now Available To Many More VMware...
I am very happy to share some very exciting news for VMware vSphere customers: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware - VMware’s OEMed version of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) - is now...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 Update 1 is Now GA!
Are you on 4.1 yet? If so, it just got better. If not, now is the time. VMware is pleased to announce that VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1 is generally available as of February 10, 2011. This release...
View ArticlevSphere 4.1 Tops the InfoWorld Virtualization Shootout
I am very excited this morning to share the results of the recent virtualization shootout conducted by InfoWorld. Once again, vSphere has shown its ability to deliver the best performance performance,...
View ArticleGoing to Virtualize Oracle?
Below is an upcoming webcast on virtualizing Oracle from the customer perspective.The intent is to share lessons learned from two customers that have implemented Oracle on VMware and use EMC storage....
View ArticleComing to Our Virtual Event Next Week?
Don't miss our announcement on Tuesday of next week. The next major step forward in cloud infrastructure is almost here! Sign-up here -Mike
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features - Introduction
As of today, VMware officially launched the 5.0 release of vSphere. There were of course many new storage features announced, such as Storage DRS & Profile Driven Storage as well as many...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 1 - VMFS-5
One of the primary objectives of Storage enhancements in 5.0 is to make the management of storage much simpler. One way to do this is to reduce the number of storage objects that a customer has to...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 2 - Storage vMotion
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...
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vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 3 - VAAI
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...
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vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 4 - Storage DRS - Initial Placement
Storage DRS (SDRS) is another new feature of vSphere 5.0, and is possibly one of the most exciting.It allows for intelligent initial placement and on-going space & load balancing of Virtual...
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vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 5 - Storage DRS - Balance On Space Usage
One of the really great features of Storage DRS (SDRS) is the fact that it will balance Virtual Machines based on both space usage and I/O latency. In this post, I will talk about balancing based on...
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vSphere 5.0 Storage Features Part 6 - Storage DRS - Balance On I/O Metrics
Another feature of Storage DRS is its abaility to balance VMs across datastores in the datastore cluster based on I/O metrics, specifically based on latency.First, let us see how Storage DRS (SDRS) is...
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