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Creating a Bootable ESXi USB Stick on Mac OS X

tludwig — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:45:49 -0700

I recently found myself with a decent HP DL385 G2 server with no hard drives (it used to have hard drives, but now it doesn’t…there’s a long story behind it that I won’t get into here). So, I decided I’d try creating a bootable ESXi USB flash drive to use with the server. There are lots of guides out there for creating bootable ESXi USB flash drives, but none of them were written for users, like myself, who use Mac OS X.

Vizioncore may be first to correctly back up VMware ESXi

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:00:34 -0700

With the new version of vRanger Pro, Vizioncore may be the first backup software vendor to embrace VMware's service console-free ESXi hypervisor. But its support has limitations.

VMware to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Results on Monday, January 26th

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:45:19 -0700

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that it plans to announce fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 financial results after market close on Monday, January 26, 2009. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review quarterly results and business outlook. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware Investor Relations website at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for one month.

Riding the downturn: Network vendors eye new markets in ’09

root — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:00:00 -0700

Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition. Microsoft, Cisco, HP, VMware, Juniper and Avaya have big plans for 2009.Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition.

Microsoft aims to become a dominant player in hosted software and cloud computing in 2009, despite its late entry in these markets. Ditto for Microsoft in the virtualization arena — where early arrival VMware has some lofty goals of its own, including shooting for a bigger role in data center management.

Vizioncore Offers Full Support for VMware's ESXi

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:45:00 -0700

Vizioncore announced that vRanger Pro 3.2.8, the latest version of its backup and restore solution, will provide full support for VMware ESXi 3.5. VMware ESXi 3.5 provides a thin hypervisor compared to the full ESX version, and has been designed to provide a smaller footprint to both simplify adoption of virtualization as well as increase security of the platform. Both free and licensed versions of VMware ESXi exist, and vRanger Pro 3.2.8 will provide backup and restore currently for only licensed versions typically found in large organizations.read more

How to access the VMware ESXi hidden console

ehowton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:45:25 -0700

Taking a look at the "hidden" VMware ESXi Server console. There are certain troubleshooting and special configuration commands that can only be accessed from this console.

Mental Ward: VMware Lands New COO

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:45:44 -0700

VMware has a new Chief Operating Officer. The company announced yesterday that Tod Nielson, a software industry veteran with more than 20 years experience, becomes the new COO. What happened to the old COO? Nothing -- it's a newly-created position. It seems a little odd to me that a company the size of VMware didn't have a COO before this.

VMware Fights Fire with Fire

tludwig — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:55:00 -0700

VMware has imported another ex-Microsoft veteran to fight Microsoft, its worst enemy. This time it’s Tod Nielsen plucked out of Borland, where he’s been CEO for the last three years, to be VMware’s chief operating officer, a specially created job that reports to fellow Microsoft veteran, VMware CEO Paul Maritz. read more

Network Failure Spurs Virtualization Overhaul at Law School

root — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:45:31 -0700

Four years ago, when the New England School of Law in Boston suffered a total network failure that lasted almost a week, the IT department knew a major overhaul was in order.

VMware, SpringSource Link Arms On Development

tludwig — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:45:21 -0700

It's getting more common to see a proprietary company partner with an open source one, but even so, the alliance of SpringSource and VMware is notable. Each is a leader in its field, and their ability to work together is a boost for both.

SpringSource supplies a tool suite, which developers use with the Spring Framework to simplify building Java applications. SpringSource and VMware are integrating use of the tools with VMware Workstation, which will allow Spring users to generate virtual machines in which to test drive their applications.