December 2, 2008 6:23 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
VirtualCenter,
VMFS,
VMware,
VMware Converter,
VMware Desktop Infrastructure,
VMware ESXVMware has just announced that they are changing the names of their current products to the new product names that were announced at VMworld. The biggest changes are that VirtualCenter is now being referred to as vCenter Server and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is now being referred to as...
November 17, 2008 5:22 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
VirtualCenter,
VMFS,
VMware,
VMware ESX,
VMware ESXiIf you have ever done a directory listing of your VMFS volumes on a VMware ESX host from the Service Console or using a file browser application like WinSCP you will notice the names of your VMFS volumes but also a number of directories that consist of a long string of numbers and letters as seen...
November 17, 2008 4:49 PM
Posted by: Texiwill
Edward L. Haletky,
P2V migrations,
VI3,
Virtual machine security,
VirtualCenter,
Virtualization,
VMware,
VMware Converter,
VMware ESX 3.5,
VMware ESXiA common VMware Communities question is how to P2V or convert a system from within a demilitarized zone (DMZ) to a virtual machine (VM) running within an ESX host that will be part of the DMZ virtual network.
P2V works by imaging the physical host within the DMZ and transferring that image to...
November 12, 2008 6:06 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
VirtualCenter,
VMware,
VMware ESXBeginning with VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 2, VMware has provided the ability to pass your currently logged-in Windows domain credentials to VirtualCenter using the VMware Infrastructure Client so you no longer have to log in to VirtualCenter separately. To do this you can create a special shortcut...
November 12, 2008 4:55 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
VI3,
VirtualCenter,
VMware,
VMware ESXWhen it comes to finding technical information on VMware products there are a number of obvious sources of information such as the official documentation and books but there are also some not so obvious sources that contain tons of great technical information.
VMware's Knowledge...
October 8, 2008 2:37 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Hyper-V,
VI3,
VirtualCenter,
Virtualization,
VMwarePalo Alto-based VMware Inc. announced this week that the Interior Health Authority (IHA) of British Columbia has standardized on...
October 6, 2008 5:51 PM
Posted by: Eric Siebert
Eric Siebert,
VI3,
VirtualCenter,
Virtualization,
VMware ESX,
VMware High Availability (VMware HA)On Friday, VMware released the latest version of VirtualCenter, Update 3 (no update 3 for ESX yet). Unlike Update 2 (which contained some great new features), this version is mainly focused on fixing bugs. VMware administrators may be a little leery of installing this update after the time-bomb...
October 2, 2008 4:16 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
SQL,
VI3,
VirtualCenter,
VMware ESXEarlier this year, I posted a blog entry about the certificate configuration for VirtualCenter installations and the fact that the certificate does not get upgraded...
October 2, 2008 1:47 PM
Posted by: Bridget Botelho
Hyper-V,
Microsoft Windows,
VI3,
VirtualCenter,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXVMware always has plenty of customers to vouch for their products, and their PR team certainly isn't shy about sending journalists examples. I get so many emails touting the latest VMware success that I could publish new VMware Infrastructure case studies every...
