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System Center 2012: In a Word -- Cool
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Apr 11 2012)
Microsoft System Center 2012 is packed with new capabilities aimed at addressing today's technology challenges. If I had to summarize what System Center 2012 was about, I would simply say it's about private clouds and mobile device management...
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Survey Depicts vSphere 5 Usage Stats
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Mar 27 2012)
VMware just released the results of a TechValidate survey of over 1,200 VMware beta customers and partners. The news, as you might expect, is good. Good means 70 percent of respondents surveyed have downloaded and deployed vSphere 5 -- which has been available for nearly seven months -- and are taking advantage of its nearly 200 new and enhanced capabilities. Good means 82 percent of those respondents have deployed vSphere 5 to virtualize their business critical workloads and apps...
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Mentions: VSphere
VMware vSphere 5 Update 1 is Here: Upgrade Now!
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Mar 26 2012)
I know a lot of you have been pushing back on the upgrade to vSphere 5 until update 1 was released. Today, I am happy to tell you the wait is over -- go ahead and start planning that upgrade. Many of the customers I spoke to said they would rather wait for an update 1 release before going through an upgrade to vSphere 5 because it was a major release. So what’s new and improved with update 1? Take a look...
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Virtualizing Demanding Applications, Part 2
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Feb 29 2012)
Last time we covered the compute tweaks and configurations necessary when virtualizing tier-1 applications. Let's now examine the rest of the stack...
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Pricing the Cloud with Free Tools
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Feb 22 2012)
Last time, I talked about many of the problems with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud pricing: public pricing typically isn't posted, there aren't standard pricing models, there's no tiered pricing, and more. In this article, let's cover some of the free options available to price the public cloud...
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Mentions: Amazon Azure Public Cloud
Balancing Virtualized Resources to Match Your Budget
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Jan 30 2012)
Last time, we looked at processors and the balance of virtual and logical processors in Hyper-V hosts. Now, let's look at how to choose a good mix of memory, networking and disk resources to match your budget...
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Mentions: Microsoft Virtualization Hyper-V
The Inevitable Rise of Hyper-V
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Oct 11 2011)
The thing about Hyper-V that customers really love--and VMware no doubt detests--is that it's cheap. Cheap as in inexpensive, not cheap as in it doesn't work. The fact is, Hyper-V users realize going in that they are not getting the capabilities of ESXi, and they don't care, because they know...and more »
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Mentions: Microsoft System Center Hyper-V
5 Design Considerations for vSphere 5
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Aug 3 2011)
5 Design Considerations for vSphere 5. The big limitation is that vCenter cannot be run on that special datastore, so consider a remote environment leveraging the central vCenter instead of a remote installation. Do you see major design changes coming due to the new features of vSphere 5 or ...
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Mentions: VSphere
Disaster Recovery in VMware Environments
Explore Home -- Virtualization Review (Jul 19 2011)
Disaster Recovery in VMware. Environments. Virtualization Review. In the recently posted "The World Runs on VMware vSphere" infographic, WiredCPU.com shows how just in the last 10 years (2001-2011) we have gone from virtually NO server virtualization in use to more than 50 percent of the servers in the ...
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Mentions: Virtualization VSphere Hypervisor
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