Rick riffs on legacy apps, automation and storage for the new year.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/13/2016
Just because a site has just one server doesn't mean it can't -- or shouldn't -- be virtualized.
- By Rick Vanover
- 08/26/2015
If you're using vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll eventually get to a point where you need to set some rules.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/06/2015
One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/28/2014
Some handy tips to save space and keep Hyper-V VMs from bogging down the rest of your systems.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/13/2014
What's so smart about SSDs? Plenty. Here's what you need to know when deploying them in your VMware virtualization practice.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/24/2014
It's always a good idea to make sure your hardware firmware and BIOS is updated prior to a major undertaking such as upgrading a server for hypervisor work. Besides, it's not that hard to do in the first place.
- By Rick Vanover
- 02/26/2014
It's read-only, but it's a big enough boost in speed to matter.
- By Rick Vanover
- 01/16/2014
In case you haven't heard, the messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2011
VirtualBox users are out there and alive and well in the virtualization community -- so much so that the inaugural Virtumania podcast topic was the free type 2 hypervisor.
- By Rick Vanover
- 09/01/2010
Although there are many critical VDI components to consider in your implementations, the choice of display protocols should never be taken lightly.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/01/2010
Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/26/2010
For anyone wanting to gain expertise in virtualization, a trip through some sort of VMware technology is a rite of passage.
- By Rick Vanover
- 11/01/2009