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April 17, 2009  1:36 PM

Bricks or blades?



Posted by: Craig Hatmaker
blades, infrastructure, Servers, Virtualization

Bricks (standard rack-mount servers) are a known entity. You've been buying and deploying them forever. You are comfortable with bricks. Blades (blade servers) are cool. They're small. They look really neat in your rack. Your vendor really wants you to buy blades. The question is,...

November 6, 2008  12:57 PM

Making a P2V conversion: Tricks for systems with large storage



Posted by: Rick Vanover
network, Networking, P2V, Rick Vanover, Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization strategies

Converting a system with a large amount of locally attached storage can be a challenging task given the time required to perform the conversion. Here area a few tricks I've found that can help ease the pain on these types of conversion tasks.

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October 23, 2008  11:01 AM

The first 45 days of using the virtual machine expiration date



Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover, Servers, Virtualization management, Virtualization strategies

In prior posts, I mentioned that determining how the expiration of a virtual machine (VM) will be managed and...


September 29, 2008  10:44 AM

EsXpress: A good idea come ’round again



Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran, Linux and virtualization, Open source, Servers, Uncategorized, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualization management, VMware, VMworld, VMworld 2008

I had the opportunity to spend a little time at the esXPress booth at VMworld 2008 this year, and I could kick myself. Hard. To go to the start of why ... a long time ago, back when my office primarily used VMware GSX3 for virtulization at the server level, I had a real need to do backups of the...


September 23, 2008  4:10 AM

Using blades as virtual hosts



Posted by: Eric Siebert
Blade servers, Servers, Virtualization, Virtualization platforms, Virtualization strategies, VMware


September 3, 2008  8:17 AM

BMC intros slew of virtualization management products



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
BMC, Citrix XenServer, Hyperic, Inc, Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Product announcements, Servers, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization security, vKernel, VMware

Houston-based BMC Software introduced several new virtualization management products today, including nine new integrated offerings designed to eliminate the risk and operational expenses associated with management of virtualized data centers. BMC's...


August 28, 2008  7:44 AM

Xen version 3.3 enhances performance, scalability to open source hypervisor



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Citrix XenServer, Embedded Virtualization, hardware, Intel, Open source, Oracle VM, Servers, Sun xVM, Virtual machine, Virtualization platforms, Xen, XenSource

Xen.org announced the release of a new version of the project's open source hypervisor, Xen 3.3 today, with enhancements to security, performance and scalability. Xen logo


August 25, 2008  9:09 AM

AMD Opteron powering top servers on VMmark list



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
AMD, AMD Opteron, hardware, HP, Intel, quad-core processor, Servers, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMmark, VMware

AMD's quad-core Opteron processors powered the top three performing servers on VMware Inc.'s VMmark virtualization...

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August 20, 2008  3:21 PM

VMware helps hospital reduce data center power, increase performance



Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Desktop virtualization, hardware, High availability and virtualization, HP, Servers, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization platforms, VMware

Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, Inc. announced that Rochester General Hospital(RGH) deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 to scale and manage its...


August 6, 2008  8:08 AM

More on optimizing virtual hosts



Posted by: Rick Vanover
Eric Siebert, hardware, Networking, Rick Vanover, Servers, Virtualization, Virtualization management, Virtualization platforms, Virtualization strategies

Eric Siebert's recent post on optimizing the host environment is a very important concern that may frequently be passed aside in the interest of...