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TweetYou spoke, they listened – sort of. VMware announced today a modification to the vSphere 5 licensing model they announced on July 12. Don’t get excited, though – they didn’t remove the vRAM entitlement. VMware made 3 major revisions to … Continue reading
TweetIn case you haven’t heard, “cloud” discussions are here to stay and everyone has their own recommendations for you to start building your cloud environment, but which is best for you? Intel has created the “Intel® Cloud Builders” program aimed … Continue reading
TweetOne of the most interesting features of the VMware vSphere 5 announcement yesterday (see my previous blog for details) was the introduction of the vSphere Storage Appliance, or VSA. The VSA allows users to take local storage installed on the VMware vSphere … Continue reading
TweetI have to admit, I’m frugal – no, I’m cheap. I shop at Goodwill, I visit “freebie” web sites, I use coupons – whatever it takes to save money. When I hear something is “free” it gets my attention, so … Continue reading
TweetReacting to the customers’ demands, VMware announces vSphere 5 today and with it comes a new licensing schema. There were a couple of major reasons for the change. Looking at the existing vSphere 4.x “per-physical-CPU” licensing model, there are limits on … Continue reading
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Tagged cluster, ESXi, HA, storage DRS, virtualization, vMotion, VMware, vRAM, vSphere 5
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TweetGartner recently released their “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure” and the results are somewhat surprising. In the report, Gartner discovered as of mid-2011, at least 40% of x86 architecture workloads have been virtualized and the installed base is expected … Continue reading
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Tagged Citrix, cloud computing, ESX, Gartner, Hyper-V, Magic Quadrant, Microsoft, OpenStack, Project Olympus, virtualization, VMware, XenApp
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TweetPersonal Cassette Players. Portable CD players. Dial up Internet. Betamax. The VCR. Pagers. These are all popular technologies that have gone away. When they were hot, you would never have expected for them to one day be extinct. Are blade … Continue reading
Consolidate Dedicated Application Server Hardware
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TweetIf you own Dell servers and you are running VMware, you’ll want to know this – Dell now offers a plug-in to VMware vCenter that enables you to manage your physical systems through the vCenter interface.
TweetDo you really need a rack server or are blade servers a better fit? That’s the question that has been on the minds of many datacenter administrators for a very long time. While there is not a definitive answer, you … Continue reading