One of the most important things next to virtualizing all those physical servers is backing them up and restoring them. This of course is not a great feat with virtualization since basically the servers are now a group of files. There are and have been for some time full featured backup/restore products out there...
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The vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) is a much improved version of the virtual switch or vSwitch found in Vmware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). The distributed switch offers new features, is managed at the datacenter level in vCenter Server, and spans across esx hosts which simplifies administration. Third party developers can create solutions for the distributed...
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These videos gives an overview of vCenter 4, walks through the user a simple upgrade from Vmware Infrastructure 3 to vCenter 4, and explains some things that should be considered before upgrading. Hope you like the videos and that they give useful information.
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The vCenter server is a central management server from Vmware for ESX. With vCenter multiple ESX host servers along with their resources and vm guests can be managed from one location. vCenter also provides additional advanced options and configurations that can enhance the management and add redundancy to a multiply ESX host environment. Some...
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Recently many of the virtualization software and solution providers have locked on to this "Go Green" buzz word. You can't help but see it every where on the web, in the news, and in magazines. While this statement holds true when using server and desktop virtualization this is a marketing strategy used in a...
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vSphere4 has a few tiers for licensing features but do the tiers make you cry? VMware vSphere4 has some really good additions to the product like Distributed Switch, Host Profiles, and Thin Provisioning. I am not totally heart broken over the different pricing options for vSphere4 but I do not completely agree with how...
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There’s lots of hype about VMware new major version of ESX which has changed name to vSphere 4.0 and Virtual Center which is changing it’s name as well to vCenter Server 4. vCenter Server 4 will also be able to run under linux according to Alessandro Perilli in a blog from virtualization.info. New features...
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