April 21, 2008 1:52 PM
Posted by: Atrujillo
DataCenter,
Hyper-V,
VMware ESX,
XenI recently floated the idea of implementing a mix of virtualization products in your data center as a way to better customize your virtual environments. The query was part of a larger discussion I wanted to get going about how
April 2, 2008 6:05 PM
Posted by: Atrujillo
Virtualization,
VMware ESX,
VMware pricingMy Digg reader kicked out a great RedmondMag.com interview with VMware's "product guru" Raghu Raghuram today in which he discusses the company's product philosophy and how it translates to the VMware product line. During the...
March 5, 2008 9:51 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
SQL Server,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXI had a peculiar situation come up recently in my VirtualCenter 2.5 environment with ESX 3.02 hosts in this particular environment. I posted the situation on the VMware Communities forum, but have yet to get a clear answer on what...
February 28, 2008 10:58 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Andrew Kutz,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXFellow SearchVMware.com blogger Andrew Kutz has done it again with his release of the integrated SSH plug-in for use in the VMware Infrastructure Client (VIC). This plug-in saves ESX administrators the hassle of launching Putty or another mechanism to start a session to the ESX host. Details on the...
February 27, 2008 3:17 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
VMware ESX,
VMware High Availability (VMware HA)When VirtualCenter (VC) 2.5 was released, I, like many others, started on a path to migrate to the new version for my VMware implementation. After the VC installation, my ESX hosts, which had only one network interface,...
February 21, 2008 8:33 PM
Posted by: Msant
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe advent of virtualization has created a burgeoning market for systems management tools that can handle the complexities of virtualized environments. Now along comes KACE Networks Inc. with a systems management tool with a virtual twist: The...
February 14, 2008 3:56 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Andrew Kutz,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe VMware Infrastructure client allows for plug-ins for third party applications and other enhancements. Andrew Kutz of lostcreations has released a plug-in for Storage VMotion that you can use outside of the VirtualCenter Remote Command Line...
February 12, 2008 3:44 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
Virtualization,
VMware ESXThe VI3 Remote CLI (command line interface) virtual appliance (VA) is provided by VMware to perform Virtual Center tasks that you cannot do in the interface, or for tasks that you want to script for automation. The Remote CLI is...
January 28, 2008 5:21 PM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Networking,
Rick Vanover,
VI3,
VMware ESXVLAN trunking, or tagging, is a powerful feature that allows ESX virtual machines to connect to multiple networks. However, your network team may not want to enable that. In fact, I have come across many situations where trunking is not done to servers, but only to switches for VLAN availability....
