March 24, 2008 4:20 PM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
virtualization humor,
VMwareWarning: The following blog post contains biting sacarsm and marginally humorous commentary that may offend sensitive VMware executives. Reader discretion is advised.
An open letter to VMware:
Hey VMware, it's me again. I know you're probably still mad at me for last week. Well, I'm...
March 24, 2008 8:03 AM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Storage,
Virtualization management,
VMwareIf one thing annoys me to no end, it is unused capacity.
That's why I like virtualization. And it's also why I like grid computing. Heck, that's why I like cheeseburgers (there's no empty space in my stomach after a trip to In-and-Out.) Virtualization makes efficient use of existing hardware to...
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 19, 2008 4:29 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Storage,
Virtual machine,
VMwareBad luck sometimes follows you. Then again, I don't believe in luck, or its evil twin Murphy's Law.
Still, bad stuff happens, and in IT, you're usually there to see it. This happened at an undisclosed location near a super secret military installation next to a classified roadside diner in an...
March 19, 2008 3:36 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Virtualization,
VMwareInspired by a great walkthrough on the LTB Blog about getting VI3 running on a mac via VMware Fusion, I decided to go ahead and give VI3.5 a try on my Macbook Pro using Parallels....
March 19, 2008 1:19 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Desktop virtualization,
Linux and virtualization,
Networking,
Product announcements,
VDI,
Virtual machine,
Virtualization,
VMwareSun Microsystems, Inc. announced this week it has added new features to its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software, originally released at VMworld in September 2007, including Sun's
March 10, 2008 12:42 AM
Posted by: SAS70ExPERT
Blade servers,
Product announcements,
Servers,
Virtualization,
Virtualization platforms,
VMwareIT pros are split on the potential impact of VMware ESX Server 3i and on the importance of new bells and whistles, such as Hewlett-Packard Co.’s plug-and-play deployment capabilities and support from other major hardware vendors.
Last week, VMware and HP announced that at the end of March,
March 3, 2008 5:30 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
P2V,
VMwareOK, I had a foul up in my last post about my physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration journey. I used Vizioncore's vConverter in my file server P2V migration, and it...
