VMFS5
With vSphere 5 around the corner, and trying to stay on top of new features, you may have heard that VMFS is finally getting an overhaul. When vSphere 4 came out, I expected to see the file system get...
View ArticleCisco’s UCM and vSphere
I’ve had questions about whether Cisco’s Call Manager can be virtualized, and how multicasting is handled in VMware. According to Cisco’s website, the Unified Communications Manager for voice, video,...
View ArticlevMotion Improvements in vSphere 5
There is a lot of buzz now about a new set of features in vSphere 5 and some of them flew under the radar for about 6 months. There are numerous improvements to how HA works now, and I’ll write up a...
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vSphere 5 and the new HA
VMware has redesigned the entire back end of it’s High Availability Clustering technology. The main change is that now instead of the Best Practice limit of around 10, we now can more effectively...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1: Major advancements
In vSphere 5.1, there are some advancements over 5.0, which necessitated a .1 release. The changes aren’t big enough to warrant a full .5 release, I suppose, or maybe VMware is just trying to do what...
View ArticleNetFlow
With Distributed Virtual Switches (which VMware can’t determine whether to abbreviate them as VDS or DVS), an option for monitoring traffic is NetFlow. With NetFlow, you can forward traffic to a...
View ArticleVMware Guest Console
A student asked me about a VMware Fling currently under Tech Preview that I had not heard of or seen before. It’s called the VMware Guest Console, or VGC, for those of you who love acronyms (who...
View ArticleVersion 5.1 updates (for View, vSphere) and where we appear to be heading…
vSphere 5.1 was introduced at last year’s VMworld, and a lot of people have been wondering just how much has changed since 5.0? After all, the vSphere Install, Configure, and Manage class has been...
View ArticlevSphere 5.5: What’s new
VMworld is over and as planned, VMware announced vSphere 5.5 and a host of updates to their virtualization landscape. First, I’ll spend some time talking about vSphere itself, and some of the new...
View ArticlevSphere 6: Fault Tolerance improvements
vSphere 6 was released earlier this year, and has numerous improvements over vSphere 5.5. one of the huge improvements was in Fault Tolerance. Most people only talk about the one improvement to FT...
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