VMware vSphere 4 (ESX 4.0, vCenter 4.0) Alarms and Host Profiles
Some are speculating that next Tuesday VMware is going to announce the release of VMware vSphere which is what essentially is Virtual Infrastructure 4.0 wh
Looking Back
VMware Virtual Center: Physical or Virtual?
Over the years there have been some controversy over this topic. Should Virtual Center (vCenter) be physical or virtual? There is the argument that it shou
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Virtualization
In the previous years Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery have been big buzz words. All companies small and large vowed to launch initiatives to impl
Questioning SaaS
I was torn on whether or not to post this rant, but then I read a post that made my head spin.... First, there was the " Great Gmail Outage of February 200
ESX local partitioning when booting from SAN
A few days ago I wrote a blog about ESX local partitions . A good question was raised after I wrote the article concerning ESX hosts that boot from SAN. In
This week in virtualization news: Volume 1
Free ESXi 3.5 Update 4 available, get it here VMware to make big announcement on Aprril21st Many are speculating VMware will be releasing the next version
Its VMware Patch Friday...
VMware just released a round of patches. Go get some -> http://support.vmware.com/selfsupport/download/ Obviously, if you have VMware Update Manager set
Parallels Workstation 4.0 Extreme
I have been a big fan of VMware products for a very long time, since the release of VMware Workstation 1.0 actually. I run VMware workstation on Windows, o
ESX automated deployment email completion notification
How would you like to kick off your ESX installation, then go have some coffee, go for a jog, or just hang out by the water cooler until it is finished wit
Network configuration for automated ESX deployment
I have been asked this question a few times so I thought it would be wise to post an article on it. When deploying an automated build script with the kicks
ESX local disk partitioning
I had a conversation with some colleagues of mine about ESX local disk partitioning and some interesting questions were raised. How many are creating local
ESX vs. ESXi which is better?
So the question is which is better VMware ESX or VMware ESXi. A lot of die hard Linux fans will always say VMware ESX because of there attachment to the se