VMware View IP address display bug in VirtualCenter.
During a recent VMware View implementation, I noticed a small bug in VirtualCenter related to VMware View and linked clones. In the LIST view below, you will see…
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New vSphere Licensing
Now that vSphere has been announced and the release date is rapidly approaching, customers have been asking what the new licensing will look like. For one, they have…
More new stuff in vSphere.
Unless you have been stuck under a rock, you know that VMware made their vSphere announcement last week. There are plenty of blogs to read to get the…
EMC’s Low Cost SAN Starter for VMware (Iomega)
Stephen Foskett gave us a teaser last night at the VMware Community Roundtables about an announcement of a low cost SAN solution for VMware labs or small environments. …
Testing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V
Recently I was asked how a client could convert a bunch of their ESX Virtual Machines to Hyper-V Virtual Machines for bake-off purposes. Here’s a quick rundown of…
Have you renewed Maintenance on your Production Software?
What impact does letting your software maintenance expire have? As a real life example, Customer X had purchased VMware ESX 3.0.2 with 1 year support. They had chose…
Comparing VMware’s ESX to the free ESXi Hypervisor
Saw this TIMELY tweet pop by my screen from Duncan Epping on the differences between ESX and ESXi. Timely since I just had a conversation with a client…
Deciding between RDMs or the MS iSCSI Initiator
Chris Hahn and I recently put together what we thought were the pros and cons for attaching a LUN to ESX and then using RDMs or just attaching…
vCenter Update 4 and the Performance Overview Plug-in.
VMware released another upgrade for vCenter this week and I’m a little disappointed. The Performance Overview plug-in which seems pretty neat is a manual installation outside of the…