VIRTUALIZATIONADMIN NEWS
- Mar 25th, 2013 – Is eBay’s elimination of VMware a canary in the coal mine warning?Today, eBay and PayPal announced their intention to, this summer, replace vSphere with OpenStack on 10,000 servers and eventually move on to do the same with the remaining 70,000 servers. As one considers the licensing cost that goes into a deal that large, its a staggering account to lose. However, it seems the VMware is beginning to see the results of new efforts to lower the cost of computing in organizations. more…
- Mar 25th, 2013 – vExpert 2013 applications are now openApplications are now open for the vExpert 2013 Program. The deadline for application is April 15, 2013 at midnight PDT. Time is running out! Its time to apply for or recommend someone for the 2013 vExpert program. vExperts are those that make the most important contributions to the VMware community. These are bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, speakers, tool builders, community leaders and general enthusiasts. more…
- Mar 20th, 2013 – Cloud-based home labs: Have you retired your gear?Ive been working on a series of articles for virtualizaitonadmin.com detailing the steps Im taking to completely rebuild my home lab. My old lab setup wasnt very flexible and didnt allow me to do the range of testing that Id like to do. more…
- Feb 28th, 2013 – How do you upgrade vSphere hosts?How do you prefer to upgrade your vSphere hosts? Ive talked about this before, but the question was recently posed to me again, so I thought Id see if perceptions had changed at all. vSphere systems need to be upgraded from time to time. Obviously, there are a lot of ways to do this. more…
- Feb 28th, 2013 – See virtual environment details with HP Virtualization Performance ViewerToday’s IT is highly virtualized and complex, making it difficult to gain the insights needed to deliver a high quality of services. When issues occur, the Virtualization administrator spends too much time troubleshooting, finds it difficult to see all the details, and has to context switch between too many tools. HP Virtualization Performance Viewer (vPV) is a real-time diagnostic and triage tool that is lightweight and provides quick time-to-value.more…
- Feb 28th, 2013 – What’s new in Microsoft’s VHDX virtual disk format?With Windows Server 2012 and the latest Hyper-V, Microsoft has also released a new version of their virtual hard drive file. This file, with the extension VHDX, can do much more than the older VHD file. more…
- Feb 28th, 2013 – What is Transparent Page Sharing?VMwares vSphere does some pretty amazing things with a host servers memory in order to maximize the number of virtual machines that can be on a single server. After all, the more workloads that can reasonably run on a server, the fewer hosts that need to be provisioned. When there is idle CPU time, vSphere looks for pages located across virtual machines that can be matched with one another and shared in physical RAM. more…
- Feb 28th, 2013 – Ease backup headaches with Veeam Backup Cloud EditionFor many people, when they think about virtual machine backup, they think about Veeam. Veeam has long been a very popular player in the virtual machine backup market and has been responsible for helping many an organization eliminate their archaic tape-based environments for disk-based backups. Now, Veeam is taking the next logical step and has released Veeam Backup Cloud Edition. As you may guess, Cloud Edition uses, well, the cloud as its backup repository. more…