March 20, 2008 12:43 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Storage,
Virtualization management,
VMwareUsing Storage VMotion (SVM) from the command line is fairly straightforward. However, a lot of admins may not be comfortable with the inefficiency of taking extra steps to perform a task that can be better handled via an integrated GUI tool.
It's a feature that was clearly lacking in the VI 3.5 /...
March 14, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
Servers,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategiesJust about every large hardware vendor can bundle support services for virtualization platforms with your equipment and software purchases. This may seem like a good idea, but let us take a moment to identify the mechanics of the support services that you are expecting.
The types of support...
February 29, 2008 12:54 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Blade servers,
Networking,
Rick Vanover,
Servers,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategiesYou may be considering new blade servers for your virtual host environments, and you are not alone. Gone are the days of the perception that blade servers have less horsepower than their general purpose counterparts. I recently attended a local virtualization user group meeting, and we talked at...
February 27, 2008 10:41 AM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Application virtualization,
Desktop virtualization,
VDI,
Virtual machine,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategies,
VMware,
XenSourceWith virtualization adoption teetering on mainstream, I am sure it is difficult for VMware to find the balance between what to explain about the technology and what is considered common knowledge.
Judging by a show of hands, a lot of what the 40-or so IT admins who attended
February 15, 2008 2:54 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Lab management,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategiesWe all know that test environments are an important part of the quality process within IT. Unfortunately, we may not always follow through and provide good test environments. Virtualization changes all of that. This tip will share some of the strategies that I have found to truly enable robust test...
February 7, 2008 1:10 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Microsoft Virtual Server,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategies,
VMware,
XenThe small and medium businesses (SMB) are unique in their approach to virtualization. In attending a recent VMware Users Group (VMUG) meeting it became clear that virtualization is much easier to embrace for the large enterprise, whereas the smaller IT shops have an entirely different dynamic....
February 6, 2008 12:36 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization strategiesI read an article here on SSV entitled "Virtualization and Staffing" the other day, and decided I had to add my two cents in and comment. I was going to do a...
January 30, 2008 10:29 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
Virtualization managementI am blogging from the first annual Technosium 2008 Global Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., where I have gotten some clarification on regulatory compliance, a topic that perplexes me and other virtualization managers and administrators I...
January 18, 2008 4:27 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Virtualization management,
VMwareTodays episode is ... screwing up your test environment and fixing it. As many know, I test management tools like some people switch socks. I have a simple theory on it: If what I'm using could be better, and there's no business impact in switching, I'm going to switch. I went from Groundwork Open...
