Does size matter?
UPDATED - I've been a fan of VMware for what seems like more than a decade, still have my VMware 1.0.2 for Linux CD even. I just wanted to dispel a myth that ESXi has a small disk footprint. On...
View ArticleCheap vSphere installation managable by vCenter
UPDATED - I don't mean to turn this into a Vmware blog or a storage blog as those have been almost all of my posts so far, but as someone who works for a company that hasn't yet invested too much in...
View ArticleSave 50% off vSphere essentials for the next 90 days
Came across this today, which mentions you can save about 50% when licensing vSphere essentials for the next ~90 days. As you may know Essentials is a really cheap way to get your vSphere stuff managed...
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vSphere VAAI only in the Enterprise
Beam me up! Damn those folks at VMware.. Anyways I was browsing around this afternoon looking around at things and while I suppose I shouldn't be I was surprised to see that the new storage VAAI APIs...
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Testing the limits of virtualization
You know I'm a big fan of the AMD Opteron 6100 series processor, also a fan of the HP c class blade system, specifically the BL685c G7 which was released on June 21st. I was and am very excited about...
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VMware jacks up prices too
Not exactly hot on the heels of Red Hat's 260% price increase, VMware has done something similar with the introduction of vSphere 5 which is due later this year. The good: They seem to have eliminated...
View ArticleCluster DRS
Given the recent price hikes that VMware is imposing on it's customers(because they aren't making enough money obviously) , and looking at the list of new things in vSphere 5 and being, well...
View ArticleVMware Licensing models
[ was originally combined with another post but I decided to split out ] VMware has provided it's own analysis of their customers hardware deployments and telling folks that ~95% of their customers...
View ArticleVMware revamps vSphere 5 licensing again
I guess someone over there high up was listening, nice to see the community had some kind of impact, VMware has adjusted their policies to some degree, far from perfect, but more bearable than the...
View ArticleFarewell Terremark – back to co-lo
I mentioned not long ago that I was going co-lo once again. I was co-lo for a while for my own personal services but then my server started to act up (the server was 6 years old if it was still alive...
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