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Updating VMware vSphere Hypervisor

So first post about the free Hypervisor under its new name. I wrote an article regarding the process of upgrading from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0. Well I am happy to announce that this has changed - again! …

  • Management
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Administration
1 min read

The VMware Tools Icon has Changed

I posted in a previous post about the VMware Tools Icon in VMware Workstation. After updating the tools this evening on a VM running on a ESXi 4.1 Host - this is confirmed Personally - I like the new …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • Miscellaneous
4 min read

The King is Dead! Long Live the King!

Forgive the corny humor… The free ESXi Hypervisor is no more (well at least not by that name). VMware have re-branded it as VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) VMware vSphere Hypervisor FAQs What …

  • GO
  • vSphere
  • vSphere Hypervisor
  • VMware
1 min read

vMotion or VMotion?

Now that vSphere 4.1 is now released one of the new not so exciting features or developments that have emerged but are definitely worth mentioning. VMware has finally made the change. Up until this …

  • VMotion
  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
4 min read

What's New in vSphere 4.1

A small group of people were granted access to the Release Candidate Beta and over the past 3 weeks have been exposed to the new features and improvements that are involved with this new release. I …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
  • ESX
3 min read

What's New in vSphere 4.1 - ESXi

Here are some of the New features and enhancements for ESXi 4.1 and the vCLI Get ready - THERE WILL BE NO MORE FULL ESX!! (or so VMware promises…)

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
  • ESX4i
3 min read

What's New in vSphere 4.1 - Network IO Control

Network Traffic Management. A great new feature allowing you to define shares on the Network traffic of your ESX servers. The diagram at left should be familiar to most. When using 1GigE NICs, ESX …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
3 min read

What's New in vSphere 4.1 - Storage IO Control

After all the videos and Posts published regarding the new Feature of SIOC, here are some of the new features and solutions that SIOC addresses. The problem Storage I/O control is addressing is the …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
2 min read

Plug-ins and Tomcat

I have another post coming up regarding 2rd party plug-ins - explaining a few things I have learned over the past two days - regarding SSL and getting that to work with your properly in the vSphere …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
1 min read

Be Careful of the 9th Host in the Cluster

I was looking yesterday at post from Matt McSpirit regarding the Cluster Limits of Hyper-V. I started to look at how this would compare to vSphere. I do not want to go into who can cram more …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • ESX