Virtualizationism

June 3, 2013 | 5 comments

Hilarious series of polygraph videos with Microsoft employee under interrogation.

March 14, 2013 | 16 comments

Microsoft exec responds to VMware Hybrid Cloud. Heavily.

February 25, 2013 | No comments

The length of the short list of Microsoft partners offering a huge Azure "appliance" is approaching zero.

February 12, 2013 | 1 comment

Latest edition of Veeam Backup & Replication allows vSphere administrators to back up to a public cloud.

February 7, 2013 | 9 comments

Will a future version of the tepid Microsoft Surface tablet run a resurrected version of Windows NT?

January 31, 2013 | 1 comment

Both vSphere and Hyper-V offer a capability to move running virtual machines and storage in a single operation, but virtual disks on local storage cannot be protected by HA.

January 18, 2013 | 1 comment

New book on vSphere 5 covers a variety of technical aspects needed for effective virtual infrastructure design and administration.

January 11, 2013 | 2 comments

Working together with Intel and Dell, VMware demonstrated vMotion with SR-IOV on ESX in 2009.

September 10, 2012 | 8 comments

VMware removed vRAM entitlements from vSphere licensing; applies to existing 5.0 as well as 5.1 environments.

September 10, 2012 | 3 comments

Fault tolerant virtual machines can protect key elements of an infrastructure today, while Windows Hyper-V offers only criticism, press releases, and vaporware.

August 29, 2012 | No comments

Why should Hyper-V have all the fun?

August 28, 2012 | 3 comments

With the launch of vSphere 5.1, VMware is neutralizing the controversial vRAM-based licensing model and reverting to the former per-socket arrangement. Tad is busy updating his sales and marketing collateral.

August 27, 2012 | 8 comments

Microsoft tried to compare storage performance results from the upcoming Windows Hyper-V 3 with experiments from a year-old vSphere whitepaper that used completely different configurations -- see what happens when similar configurations are used.

August 9, 2012 | 24 comments

The next version of Hyper-V, part of Windows Server 2012, purportedly performs "unlimited" concurrent live migrations.

July 27, 2012 | 2 comments

It takes a lot more than a 16GB flash drive full of management products to deliver a production cloud.

July 25, 2012 | 8 comments

Microsoft System Center private cloud campaign claims "Ready now." Is it?

May 9, 2012 | 9 comments

In what can only be regarded as a breakthrough in hypervisor performance technology, it is now possible to run tier-1 applications on minimal resources and without regard for high-availability of any kind!

April 30, 2012 | 2 comments

Join the VMware Cloud Infrastructure Products team in this exciting network/security role.

April 27, 2012 | No comments

The "hosted private clouds" on display at MMS 2012 were based on shared infrastructure, making them public clouds in reality.

April 26, 2012 | No comments

According to NIST, hybrid cloud infrastructures enable data and application portability - not typically a point of compatibility between PaaS and IaaS clouds.

April 24, 2012 | No comments

Microsoft tipped their hand by announcing a plethora of beta products in 2011, left with little to announce this year at Microsoft Management Summit 2012.

April 17, 2012 | 4 comments

How is a tricked-out bicycle like a System Center 2012 private cloud?

April 6, 2012 | 2 comments

Todd and Sreekanth from the VMware Performance Team talk about vMotion, with a guest appearance by Eric Gray.

March 9, 2012 | 25 comments

New book on vCenter Orchestrator from Cody Bunch shows how to automate vSphere tasks. WIN one of ten copies!

March 1, 2012 | No comments

Exciting new opportunity to join the VMware cloud infrastructure competitive lab team.

February 15, 2012 | No comments

System Center 2012 RTM planned for "2H CY11" -- can you feel the excitement?

February 13, 2012 | 5 comments

Two iPhone apps to help keep up with podcasts and RSS feeds.

February 10, 2012 | 22 comments

Virtualizing vSphere enables many possibilites for learning and experimenting. What you *you* doing with nested virtualization?

October 19, 2011 | 11 comments

Side-by-side tests show that VMware vMotion is over 5 times faster than Hyper-V Live Migration. Plus, vMotion is more reliable and protects application SLAs much better than Hyper-V.

October 13, 2011 | No comments

The Microsoft Cloud Power billboard on Highway 101 is obscured by a construction project. See who won last week's caption contest.

October 5, 2011 | 16 comments

Win a copy of the new VMware Workstation 8 by providing the best caption for a photo of the Microsoft Cloud Power billboard construction site.

August 26, 2011 | 31 comments

Independent tests show VMware vSphere 5 outperforms Hyper-V R2 SP1 in overall performance, resource management, and scalability.

August 22, 2011 | 1 comment

VMware vSphere 5 introduces a new license report for vRAM. Unfortunately, the report does not display properly when using the Linux-based vCenter Server Virtual Appliance until a small workaround is executed.

August 18, 2011 | 5 comments

Citrix CFO downplays XenServer during Q2 2011 earnings call, shifting focus to Microsoft Hyper-V.

August 11, 2011 | 7 comments

In a recent blog post filled with FUD and misinformation, the Microsoft virtualization team makes a surprising commitment to maintain Windows pricing.

August 9, 2011 | 1 comment

VMware vSphere 5 adds the ability to perform a scripted installation of VMware ESXi 5 to a USB flash drive or SD card. Hyper-V? Not so much.

July 31, 2011 | 21 comments

VMware ESXi 5 media can be used for interactive PXE installs without creating the image.tgz file that ESXi 4.1 required. A "prefix" directive for boot.cfg also makes it easier to organize various versions of the install media into subdirectories.

July 12, 2011 | 102 comments

VMware vSphere 5 makes it even easier to virtualize ESXi, and can now run nested 64-bit guests.

July 11, 2011 | No comments

Be sure to sign up for the major VMware event happening July 12, 2011 at 9 a.m.

June 27, 2011 | 34 comments

PXE is arguably the best way to install VMware ESXi or Linux and it also enables various Linux-based utilities. See how to configure Windows Deployment Services to coexist with a Linux PXE server.

June 16, 2011 | 5 comments

A recent article on a popular technology media outlet includes misinformed claims about Hyper-V Dynamic Memory advantages over VMware vSphere.

June 9, 2011 | 10 comments

Learn Microsoft's trick behind the claim that VMware vSphere costs as much as five times more than Hyper-V.

May 31, 2011 | 6 comments

When using the VMware vSphere Distributed Switch, ephemeral port groups offer a capability not found in the other two binding options.

May 26, 2011 | 4 comments

Network teaming provides load balancing and fault tolerance to your virtual infrastructure. VMware vSphere provides powerful, elegant solutions to meet the most demanding requirements. The Hyper-V platform continues to rely on unsupported legacy technologies.

May 24, 2011 | 9 comments

Some newcomers to virtualization don't know that VMware vSphere is the combination of VMware ESXi and vCenter Server. By launching a complete virtualization infrastructure platform, VMware can offer more advanced capabilities than the staggered Hyper-V releases from Microsoft.

April 13, 2011 | 12 comments

Latest InfoWorld comparison of all major virtualization platforms puts VMware vSphere on top!

April 7, 2011 | No comments

See the two-step process used to export a VM from the OpSource Cloud in OVF format for use with a vSphere private cloud.

April 6, 2011 | 1 comment

Learn some of the details behind the OpSource Cloud network topology and performance.

April 5, 2011 | No comments

Learn about connection options, such as SSL VPN and NAT, for workloads running on the OpSource Cloud.

April 4, 2011 | No comments

OpSource Cloud is a public IaaS cloud built on VMware vSphere 4.1. Take a look at some of the features in this multi-part series.