Let's start with scalability. VMware vSphere can scale higher than previous versions, supporting more CPU cores and more RAM for hosts and virtual machine (VM) guests (see Figure 1). For example, ...

I believe 4.1 is the last version of vSphere that will ship with "full fat" ESX and that future releases will be ESXi only. However, it isn't the future it's now, and I have 2 new vSphere hosts that I ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

VMware vSphere 4.0 touches on almost every aspect of managing a virtual infrastructure, from ESX host provisioning to virtual network management to backup and recovery of virtual machines. Time will ...

Migrating from VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4 was a difficult journey for me. There were several issues with this migration, that I have ...

VMware hopes its vSphere 5 virtualisation suite will encourage small businesses to use its hypervisor by quadrupling the power available to virtual machines and eliminating the need for a dedicated ...

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with ...

VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM ...

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, the overwhelming majority of IT shops using virtualization in a production environment are working with VMWare products. They may ...