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VMWare Is Driving Customers To Microsoft Virtualization

July 14, 2011
VMWare Licensing Cost

Yesterday VMWare announced their new licensing scheme vSphere 5 and man, that is like a small bomb went off. The new licensing will definitely add cost to virtualization when using VMware’s products. And with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology slowly catching up – this is the time for any business to re-think their virtualization strategy. This [...]

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Virtualization – Some Best Practices

December 2, 2010
Virtualization Best Practices

When using virtualization products like VMWare vSphere (ES) or Microsoft Hyper-V you can always run into issues – be it from a management/administration perspective or from a performance perspective. It can help a lot to put certain procedures and best practices into place early on to assure that your environment is stable and runs at [...]

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VMWare ESX Performance Tuning Tip

October 6, 2009

If you run VMWare ESX in your data center, you might be interested in finding new ways to tune your overall system performance. One easy way to tune performance is often overlooked, because it initially is thought to affect system redundancy. Rest assured, this will not affect your system redundancy. Here is the situation: Usually [...]

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Upgrade VMWare vCenter to Version 4

June 15, 2009

Today I upgraded my first VirtualCenter or vCenter installation to the new vSphere vCenter 4. The upgrade was very smooth and went almost without any hiccups. The vCenter client upgrades itself the next time you login. One of the first things I noticed are the thresholds for the alerts. The data store alarm thresholds needed [...]

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VMWare vSphere Licensing Changes

May 22, 2009

This one might be an issue that will bite VMWare in the rear in the long run. With the release of the new version of ESX 4 “vSphere” they also changed their licensing model a little bit – now putting more emphasis onto Multi-Core CPUs. While the initially looks as not critical, it actually is. [...]

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