For those of you who still haven't gone down the path of evaluating or purchasing VMware's VI3 High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) or even if you haven't driven past someone ...

As a consultant, I've spent quite a bit of time in front of vSphere clusters. In the last couple of years, I've spent a chunk of that time assessing the health of an environment, as well as the ...

Virtualization lets companies more efficiently use their data center hardware. But just as important is better utilization of the human resources that manage those data centers. To lighten the load, ...

Flings are, at least according to official VMware policy, experimental programs. They are unsupported tools typically meant to make a virtualization admin's life easier. Although recognized by VMware, ...

One of the Windows techs came to me today asking if we could set up an affinity rule in VMware to limit all our assorted Windows Server VMs to three hosts in the farm, some licensing thing, I dunno.

Dubai, UAE, July 19, 2011-- VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere® 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers transform IT to drive greater ...

Server virtualisation specialist VMware has announced a major upgrade to its ESX Server and VirtualCenter product suites, plus a major cut in prices that will make the tools easier to justify for ...

A short while ago, VMware and Neverfail inked an agreement in which VMware would deliver Neverfail's availablilty and application server management framework software as part of the new vCenter Server ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...