VMware will soon be discontinuing the vSphere Client for Windows application, formerly known as the VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client).
Foglight Free Edition has enough capability to figure out your performance and capacity issues. Here's a look at the various tools.
Here's a cool new trick I learned absolutely by accident when working with a Wordpress server.
It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next.
It's nice to know that VMware's documentation is accessible on my iPhone or Amazon Kindle. Here's how to gain access, too.
You have many options for deploying virtual machines. But here's one method you should become familiar with, as it'll help you when the other options become obsolete.
VMware wants you to start getting used to the vSphere Web client. One way to do that is to start using the vCSA.
Much like a human lifecycle, each virtual machine goes through one that needs to be managed from birth to end of life. Here are some tools to consider.
At too many companies today, getting reliable and 100 percent recoverable virtualization backup for the entire infrastructure is more art than science.
Pricing for cloud services needs to be a bit more structured and transparent for anyone to take cloud computing seriously.
With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license.
My list of features to help me narrow my buying decisions after the DR vendor has made its pitch.
Not the same ol' "Free Tools" session; we cover new tools that have come out since VMworld.
Socialcast is the "Facebook" for the internal communications crowd. And it's a VMware product.
All three of the most popular virtualization hypervisors are available in free editions: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer.
Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool.
In the recently posted "The World Runs on VMware vSphere" infographic, WiredCPU.com shows how just in the last 10 years (2001-2011) we have gone from virtually NO server virtualization in use to more than 50 percent of the servers in the world being virtualized (and over 20 million vSphere virtual machines running every day).
Did you know that VMware offers VMware Data Recovery (VDR), a virtual infrastructure backup and recovery solution?
You can create some advanced virtual networks with this nifty tool. Have you tried it? Plus: Upcoming VMware Webinar July 12!
My list of the best that server virtualization has to offer over physical servers.