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.
VMHA via vSphere works most of the time, but sometimes you'll need to get at those scripts to fix something.
I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine.
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
I tried Xangati for ESX to find out why the tool was different from other virtual infrastructure performance-monitoring solutions. Here's what I found out.
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
VMware Lab's ThinApped vSphere client allows running the client without installing it.
Microsoft's Free Hyper-V needs a GUI. In the meantime, a third-party provider has filled in the gap.
There's browsing the Web, and then there's kinda browsing the Web with vSphere. Here's a tool that removes the "kinda" part.
Read the forgetful manual. It'll save you some pain later on when troubleshooting vSphere.