Anyone who has installed VMware's ESXi4 hypervisor (if you haven't then get an idea of what you are missing with my article on how to setup your own ESXi4 server will be aware that the options for maintenance at the server itself are somewhat limited. [..]

Vizioncore's management tool vFoglight will work with Microsoft's virtualization platform Hyper-V by the middle of the year and with Xen from Citrix by the end of the year, the company said Wednesday at Cebit....

By Simon Gallagher

Now that VMware are moving away from ESX classic (with service console) to the ESXi model I have experienced a couple of issues recently that got me wondering if NFS will be a more appropriate model for VM storage going forward. in recent versions of ESX (3.5 and 4) NFS has moved away from just being recommended for .ISO/template storage and has some big names behind it for production VM storage.

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To stay ahead of Microsoft, VMware will have to cut prices, bolster security, simplify management and successfully navigate the desktop and the cloud.

VMware acquires several management software assets from EMC’s Ionix portfolio, potentially equipping the virtualization vendor with management and automation capabilities for the cloud.

A startup that moves VMware-based applications to the Amazon cloud and creates a secure tunnel between a customer's data center and the cloud service is launching a public beta trial Monday. CloudSwitch, recently out of stealth mode, moves existing applications from internal data centers to the cloud without rewriting the app or requiring changes in management tools.

From the Punching Cloud blog

Over the course of past week I was asked a couple of storage related questions in regards to VMFS volumes and LUN partitions. The topic of the questions were based on something that folks with experience, and knowledge of VMware virtualization platforms are aware about.

VMware is acquiring a portion of parent company EMC’s software business, in what has to be one of the stranger acquisitions in the technology industry thus far this year

By Simon Gallagher

I am currently presenting a follow-up to my previous vTARDIS session for the London VMware Users Group where I demonstrated a 2-node ESX cluster on cheap PC-grade hardware (ML-115g5).

The goal of this build is to create a system you can use for VCP and VCDX type study without spending thousands on normal production type hardware (see the slides at the end of this page for more info on why this is useful..) – Techhead and I have a series of joint postings in the pipeline about how to configure the environment and the best hardware to use.

I thought I was done blogging about VMware Partner Exchange 2010, but, twist my arm, there seems to be enough public knowledge about an upcoming feature of vSphere that I thought I would briefly... This is a summary only. Visit http://vmetc.com for full content.