Video: How to troubleshoot VMware VMotion when it fails at 10%

February 12, 2010

This video helps you troubleshoot a situation where VMware VMotion fails at 10%. The video shows you how to perform some of the more common tasks associated with resolving the failure. For more information, you can visit the VMware knowledge base article. The article provides a few more troubleshooting steps for less common issues: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003734

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VMware PEX 2010: Preview of DRS I/O Resource Shares

February 11, 2010

Steve Herrod discussed in Wednesday’s Keynote at VMware Partner Exchange: Las Vegas that vSphere will soon have the ability to set DRS Resource Shares on I/O per VM.

As many different workloads hit the same set of disks/arrays/spindles, low priority processes that run “ad-hoc” will cause higher priority systems to experience reduced performance. What you [...]

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Community: VMware “Script-O-Mania” – Win $2500!

February 10, 2010

The VMware community has been running a competition to build the best, most creative ESXi management scripts possible.
The goal of the ScriptoMania contest is to help the wider community adopt ESXi by providing useful, fun and powerful scripts to manage the ESXi platform.
They are giving the winners bragging rights, and also some hard [...]

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Video: VMware vForum 2010

February 9, 2010

This video was taken (and edited) by Eric Sloof. It’s a summary of the VMware Virtualization Forum event in Nijkerk, which is a free, interactive full day event focusing on virtual infrastructure discussion among experts and industry analysts.

VMware vForum 2010 from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

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Microsoft introduces Red Hat support in Linux Integrated Components for Hyper-V

February 8, 2010

At the end of January Microsoft silently updated its Linux Integrated Components package to version 2.0, introducing the long awaited support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest operating systems in Hyper-V.
Microsoft announced future support for Red Hat operating systems in July 2009, since the open source vendor joined the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).
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Citrix Responds to VMware on Virtual Desktop Density

February 5, 2010

At the end of January VMware revealed that they are working to increase their virtual machine density up to 16 VMs per core, mostly for VDI environments. That is twice the average amount of VMs that customers seems able to accommodate today, and VMware suggested that this record depends on new Intel Xeon 5500 (codename [...]

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Simon from TechHead Interview with Peter Pistek from Nirvanix

February 4, 2010

Nirvanix offers a number of offsite storage based services/solutions, via their globally disbursed and interconnected storage delivery network (SDN). The SDN “intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best network location, providing the optimal user experience”.
According to Nirvanix a true cloud based storage provider such as themselves must offer the [...]

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Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch Seminar Series

February 3, 2010

The Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch delivers VN-Link services to virtual machines hosted on its server. It takes advantage of the VMware vSphere framework to offer tight integration between server and network environments, and to help ensure consistent, policy-based network capabilities to all servers in your data center.
Learn more about this software switch at the Nexus [...]

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VMware rumored to acquire RTO Software!

February 2, 2010

Today a rumor has been bouncing around the web that VMware might be on the move to aquire RTO Software.
The first solid piece of info came from Virtualization.info early this morning.
In September 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software to offer its Virtual Profiles product. Virtual Profiles is a mandatory piece to manage [...]

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Video: Cisco Unified Communication Manager 7.0

February 1, 2010

These are Jasjeet Singh’s installation video of Cisco Unified Communication Manager 7.0 on VMware 1.0.1 parts 1-3.

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