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VKernel, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, today announced an essential resource to assist virtualization administrators and data center managers in capacity planning. The new white paper, ... Read More...
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VKernel, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today a key resource to assist VMware customers in determining proper vRAM (VM memory) sizing. Outlined in a new white paper, “VM Memory... Read More...
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When sizing virtual machines a virtualization administrator must select the number of vCPUs, size of the virtual disk, number of vNICs, and the amount of memory. Out of all those potential variables, the amount of memory allocated to each virtual machine is often the most difficult to determine. Thi... Read More...
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Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity. The newly formed press will provide a suite of virtualizati... Read More...
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VKernel, the number one provider of capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, today announced another way to combat VMware performance problems. Outlined in a new white paper, Top 5 VM Performance Problems, available at http://bit.ly/Top-5-VM-Performance-Probl... Read More...
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Storage Area Networks (SANs) and virtualization (e.g. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware’s ESX) are the rapidly growing present and dominant future of general purpose computing. After all the “cloud” is based on these technologies. Key to these new technologies is the sharing of computing resources, which ... Read More...
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According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, 18.2% of all new servers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09) were virtualized, an increase from 15.2% in 4Q08. New server shipments virtualized in 4Q09 increased year over year for the f... Read More...
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Data centers are in for sweeping changes in the next five years, especially as the multitude of networks that compose the modern business begin to converge into a single digital thoroughfare. This according to a whitepaper released today by Blade.org, the industry consortium driving innovation in bl... Read More...
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A recent survey conducted by Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, revealed that virtual desktop delivery interests higher education information technology (IT) professionals looking for ways to optimize the computer lab. Seventy-six percent of... Read More...
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Embotics, the Virtualization Lifecycle Management™ Company, today announced the sponsorship of a new research benchmark report entitled “Virtual Strategies: Managing Servers, Desktops and Storage for Infrastructure Efficiency” by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS). The research details... Read More...
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Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its latest research report titled, "Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts and Recommendations." EMA and its research director... Read More...
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One of VMBlog's members, Frane Borozan, is doing what he can to try and help the virtualization community at large. Frane has taken up the charge for system administrators everywhere by designing a cheap solution to do backup disaster recovery using virtualization. In this project, he plans on usi... Read More...
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Virtualization is a key enabler of IT and business efficiency, but is vastly misunderstood and underestimated within user enterprises. As a result, user executives fail to effectively manage it, and therefore fail to realize the full potential and benefits of IT virtualization. And IT vendors seldom... Read More...
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VMware recently updated its compatibility guides:
HCL: Storage Compatibility Guide for ESX Server 3.x
VMware ESX Server 3.x has been tested and deployed in a variety of storage area network (SAN) environments. This guide describes the combination of HBAs (host bus adapters) and storage device... Read More...
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