Virtualization Review

Multi-NIC vMotion allows multiple Ethernet interfaces for both standard vSwitches and vNetwork Distributed Switches to perform vMotion traffic on multiple interfaces. 12/08/2011 Read Now >

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. 11/01/2011 Read Now >

A Q&A with the tech chief on what keeps the company looking above the cloud. 10/27/2011 Read Now >

Readers have been asking, so here's a solution. 10/27/2011 Read Now >

With the proliferation of objects on physical and virtualized servers, a naming convention for objects will help you stay on top of everthing. Here are some guidelines I developed for a naming convention. 10/13/2011 Read Now >

Rather than add a comment to my last blog post that will likely be lost to everyone's eyes, here's a blog post where I answer your questions outright. In plain sight. 10/11/2011 Read Now >

It's not just features and performance that have me recommending vSphere, but it's the ecosystem, community, and VMware's forward vision for the product. 10/03/2011 Read Now >

VMware has released upgrades to two virtualization platforms, VMware Workstation 8 and VMware Fusion. 09/15/2011 Read Now >

VMware hired Principled Technologies to do a side-by-side comparo of vSphere 5 and Hyper-V R2 SP1 throughput when running a SQL Server workload under high VM densities. Guess who won? 09/15/2011 Read Now >

Updated vSphere 5.0 white paper is targeted at admins who plan to roll it out soon. 09/13/2011 Read Now >

Storage DRS is a fantastic new vSphere feature that load balances virtual machines across the different datastores to optimize performance. But there's another reason I've ranked this the top feature. 09/08/2011 Read Now >

From the 30 companies I saw, I was able to whittle down my list of vendors that caught my attention to a mere handful. 09/06/2011 Read Now >

Trend Micro, SolarWinds, F5 demonstrate new and improved solutions around the VMware tool ecosystem 09/01/2011 Read Now >

Beyond vSphere 5 sessions, VMworld can be distilled into six major announcements having to do with being more cloud-connected. 09/01/2011 Read Now >

In my interview with the VMware VP, he spoke at length about VMware's relationships with its customers and how the company seeks to satisfy all 250,000 of them. 09/01/2011 Read Now >

Dell Cloud takes VMware's vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers who want a piece of the cloud. 08/31/2011 Read Now >

Microsoft revved up its cloud marketing message on Monday with the release of a whitepaper titled "Microsoft Private Cloud: A Comparative Look at Functionality, Benefits and Economics." 08/30/2011 Read Now >

The company claims its Virsto for VDI plays very well with VMware's vSphere. 08/30/2011 Read Now >

vFabric Director to support open-source Postgres SQL database initially; it's available now at CloudFoundry.com. 08/30/2011 Read Now >

Sungard provides what it calls the first cloud disaster recovery service of its kind for VMware VMs. 08/29/2011 Read Now >

From VMworld 2011: VMware is emphasizing its drive to the enterprise hybrid cloud by offering vCloud customers a myriad of cloud services based on VMware cloud infrastructures. 08/29/2011 Read Now >

VMware's newest hypervisor upgrade officially released before the company's VMworld Conference taking place next week in Las Vegas. 08/26/2011 Read Now >

Get to know VMware's newest, more robust hypervisor. 08/26/2011 Read Now >

Oracle said its newly introduced Oracle VM 3.0 delivers four times better scalability that VMware "at a fraction of the cost." 08/25/2011 Read Now >

The shindig is a week away. Here are sessions that are worth attending, and sessions where you might run into me. 08/23/2011 Read Now >

Rick's new role has him attending in a different capacity. Still, he's also attending sessions and these are his picks this year. 08/23/2011 Read Now >

If you've been reading this blog long enough, you know by now that I'm a big fan of VMFS. Here's why. 08/18/2011 Read Now >

While this is not necessarily a feature of vSphere 5, it relies heavily on some of the new vSphere 5. 08/16/2011 Read Now >

Before you update that older vSphere, gain some insight into your licensing requirements for vSphere 5 with this nifty tool. 08/11/2011 Read Now >

VMware's Raghu Raghuram points to three areas where the company could make improvements. 08/09/2011 Read Now >

vSphere 5 does storage better, and by better, I mean with Swap to SSD and a much improved VAAI. 08/09/2011 Read Now >

VMware listened to the growing din around its vSphere 5 vRAM entitlements, and announced an increase of vRAM limits in a blog Wednesday. 08/04/2011 Read Now >

Licensing plans for vRAM raised from originally announced limits. Some customers still not happy... 08/04/2011 Read Now >

Well done, VMware! And not a VMworld too soon, I might add... 08/03/2011 Read Now >

New features are paving the way for even more efficient virtual environments. 08/02/2011 Read Now >

Six is a party and at number six are three features I put at a tie. 08/02/2011 Read Now >

vSphere 5 is a platform upgrade and naturally there will be feature enhancements to its VM capabilities. 07/28/2011 Read Now >

Profile-driven storage isn't a necessity, but it can be necessary when you need to keep tabs on vast amounts of virtualized storage in a sprawling enterprise. 07/26/2011 Read Now >

These two vSphere 5 features really should be viewed as a unit, one working in compliment to the other to streamline the hypervisor provisioning. 07/21/2011 Read Now >

Even though certain aspects of View Accelerator are configured from the VMware View Composer, View Accelerator is really more of a hypervisor feature, not a VMware View product feature. 07/19/2011 Read Now >