VSphere

Which platform for a private/hybrid cloud?

My company is looking to deploy a private cloud, and we've been considering Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, Nimbus, vSphere, abiCloud and Joyent. I'm very interested in Eucalyptus and OpenNebula, since they are both  open source, they have many features, they both support Amazon EC2 and  Amazon APIs and...

Error when installing vSphere Client on Windows Server 2008 R2

I am getting the following error when I try to log in to vsphere client on my Windows Server 2008 R2 "Error Parsing the server "x.x.x.x" "clients.xml" file Login will continue contact your system administrator" Does anyone know a fix for this? Software/Hardware used: vsphere client, windows...

Vsphere installation

I have Downloaded the trail Version of Vsphere from VMware Site on to My P.C.i want to install it.IS it Mandatory to have dedicated Server for running V sphere in ur P.C PlZ guide regarding the Installation of VSPHERE

Unity Connection VM SANs and AA

Can I run Unity Connection in vSphere cluster (vMotion) with SANs storage and does it support Auto Attendant 

VMware backtracking on vSphere Enterprise Edition phaseout

As you may have read, VMware is backtracking on its end-of-availability for vSphere Enterprise Edition, extending its availability indefinitely. Are you confused about it? Relieved? Has this announcement affected your decisionmaking process for upgrades in the future?

Clarrification on VSphere with vCenter

There are 3 Questions that i would like to know of . Till date , We have our ESX Servers added as part of Virtual Center through its IP address . We are planning to remove and add it using its FQDN . In this scenario , Will we be able to retain the performance data of the ESX Server and Virtual...

What's the benefit of having two physical processors on a single ESX host instead of one?

According to the VMware site, at least two physical processors are needed for vSphere installation. What's the benefit of having two physical processors on a single ESX host instead of one?

Hyper-V and SCVMM vs VMware ESX/vSphere

It seems that Microsoft has made significant strides in catching up with VMware. Besides cost, what would be the advantage of using Hyper-V and SCVMM vs ESX/vSphere infrastructure? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Memory overhead recommended for benchmarking SQL server 2005 on vSphere

For a 'direct' physical to VM comparison of SQL server 2005, would anyone recommend giving the VM extra (say, 1.5GB) RAM to compensate for any overhead the OS needs? So a direct comparison would then be 1vCPU, 2.5GB RAM VM & SQL set to use 1GB RAM) vs. SQL on physical host set to use 1CPU and 1GB...

vSphere essentials licenses cannot be downgraded to ESX equivalents

Jason Tramer pointed out on his blog today that though you can downgrade vSphere licenses to ESX 3-equivalent licenses, but vSphere essentials licenses cannot be downgraded, and you must use them with vSphere. Have you run into this issue? Will this knowledge affect any purchasing decisions in the...

Free version of vSphere 4.0 like ESXi 3.5?

Is there going to be a free version of vSphere 4.0 like ESXi 3.5? Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance

Would the fault tolerance feature in vSphere work as a disaster recovery solution? Thanks. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question