Tag: VMware

Testing Virtual Machines on Hyper-V

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 ... Read More

Have you renewed Maintenance on your Production Software?

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.  ... Read More

Comparing VMware’s ESX to the free ESXi Hypervisor

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 ... Read More

Deciding between RDMs or the MS iSCSI Initiator

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 ... Read More

vCenter Update 4 and the Performance Overview Plug-in.

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 ... Read More