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  • RSA extends security tools to VMware

    Administrators can integrate SecurID into VMware View, vSphere Management Assistant and VMware ESX Service Console, RSA said.RSA has extended the enVision SIEM (security information and event management) tool to gather information on events and…
    05 March 2010

  • Microsoft, Novell defend alliance

    This helps Windows Server and Hyper-V compete better against VMware's ESX.Also, Microsoft and Novell are working to enable Linux users to be able to automatically log into SharePoint and other Microsoft applications, said Jose Thomas, a technical…
    10 November 2009
    Tags: Signed • Windows Server • Red Hat • Forrester Research • Purchased • Guest

  • Citrix takes on VMware in virtual PC drive

    Most Burton Group clients that have deployed Citrixs virtual desktop infrastructure are still using a VMware ESX server to host the desktops, he said. Citrix can and should take advantage by further integrating its own products with Microsofts…
    28 September 2009
    Tags: Market Share • Desktops • Hypervisor • Delivery • Citrix • Partnership

  • Startup shows off VMware security appliance

    Startup HyTrust Monday launched its first product, an appliance for enforcing security policy related to administrative use of VMware ESX servers and the VirtualCenter management console.The HyTrust Appliance v1.0, sold as physical hardware or…
    07 April 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Console • Controls • Policy • Appliance • Esx

  • VMware to launch VM management from mobiles

    The vCMA server must be connected to VMware vCenter or any of the ESX servers that is going to be managed.A demo, using a BlackBerry emulator, shows a user logging onto the server using the vCenter IP address, user name and password.
    23 March 2009
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Administrators • Virtual Machines • Mobile Access • Mikael RicknÄS • Vcenter

  • Vizioncore tightens up virtualisation management

    He said that it would take personal productivity up a level, estimating that it could shave 30 to 40 percent off management time.vControl works across across multiple platforms, including VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer…
    12 March 2009
    Tags: Maxwell Cooter • Language • Admin • Specialist • Tasks • Graphical

Latest Features

  • Time to look at apps within virtualised systems

    The collector sends detailed statistics on the operating systems by using either Windows Management Instrumentation or ESX Server when connecting to VMware Virtualcentre (recently renamed "vcentre") management APIs.
    12 February 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Mapping • Shape • Data Centres • Centric • Virtual Servers

  • XenServer 5.0 offers host of new features

    There's the thin hypervisor/thin OS/thin client approach as recommended by Citrix and VMware with its ESX product; there's the thin client/thin OS version with no hypervisor as practised by Parallels and there's the fatter version with thinner…
    27 November 2008
    Tags: Hypervisor • Trial • Citrix • Virtual Machines • Enhancements • Xen

  • Backup strategy - virtualisation changes everything

    The company runs 300 guest machines on 19 VMware ESX servers connected to a 150TB SAN. Obviously, database servers and other transaction in-flight servers need more care in creating a DR backup.We run weekly jobs on each of our VMware ESX servers…
    21 February 2008
    Tags: Volumes • Restore • Agents • Guest • Request • Snapshot

  • Blade servers vs. rack servers

    Director must be "housed" on its own rackable server or blade, and the server has its own set of costs, though it need not be a high performer with lots of storage.We downloaded various operating systems, including several instances running via…
    04 February 2008
    Tags: Power Consumption • Cpus • Chassis • Clock • Cables • Onboard

  • VMware VirtualCenter gets continuous availability

    If you are using VMware's VI3, you probably use VMware VirtualCenter to manage your VMware ESX Server farm. The product was designed to ensure that IT administrators won't lose access to the features provided by VMware VirtualCenter despite IT…
    24 January 2008
    Tags: Protect • Failure • Continuous • Administrators • Care • Flexibility

  • Ten virtualisation companies to watch

    It works with the AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, VMware ESX and Xen operating systems.Why is it worth watching? The founders saw a need to help desktop and server administrators better manage their environments in a secure, scalable manner.How did…
    06 November 2007
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Disaster Recovery • Enhance • Watching • Founded • High Availability
 

How-Tos

  • How to manage multivendor virtualisation

    That's unusual, but very positive," EMA's Mann says.Today, Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) can manage the Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Server hypervisors plus VMware's ESX and ESXi hypervisors through integration with VMware vCenter Server…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Infrastructures • Hypervisor • Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Server Virtualisation

  • How to virtualise SQL Server

    Lower Cost of Disaster Recovery CapabilityUsing VMware organisations can create a unified disaster recovery platform using ESX Server virtual machines as standby servers. That said, a lot of servers can be fully provisioned on high spec equipment…
    09 March 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Utilisation • Mapping • Scsi • Sql Server • Raw

  • Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

    A sensible configuration would require eight or nine dual-socket, quad-core ESX hosts to comfortably host the existing applications, leave some room for growth, and support the failure of a single host with limited downtime.Stage 4: Selecting the…
    08 February 2008
    Tags: Examine • Virtual Server • Server Virtualisation • Ed • Hadn • Missioncritical

  • The Tao of managing virtualised servers

    He uses the tools that are already part of VMware's ESX, which he calls "awesome," but he backs them up with Dell Remote Access Controller, which monitors all the equipment in his physical servers, and WhatsUp Professional from IPswitch for…
    06 December 2007
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Hypervisor • Loads • Profiles • Canada • Cost Savings

  • Case Study: Simplify the workplace with IT data centre consolidation (part 2)

    At KMD, a Danish software developer for local governments that used VMware's ESX Server to consolidate three data centres to one, many of the same staff continued managing servers and applications remotely in virtual teams after the consolidation.
    12 December 2006
    Tags: Wave • Fear • Article • American • Learned • Focusing

  • Case Study: Managing the virtual realm

    It understands how business applications are performing within VMware ESX virtual machines and identifies hot spots - abnormal activity that can be corrected by administrators before it affects the business service, BMC says.CA offers Unicentre…
    29 August 2006
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Jobs • Workload • Assurance • Shops • Tivoli

Reviews

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    This is useful when patching one host at a time.Cross-platform supportWith the 2008 R2 release, SCVMM can now support and manage VMware ESX virtualised infrastructure along with Virtual Center. The aim here is for SCVMM to be the "single pane of…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Server 2008 review

    Further, it allows the same management of ESX hosts that you get through VMware vCenter (because it works through vCenter), enabling management of a mixed Hyper-V and ESX environment from one console.
    30 September 2009
    Tags: Invest • Vm • Loads • Instances • Hosts • Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Hyper-V RC1

    By contrast, VMware's ESX Server supports dozens of Linux variants directly by providing guest OS integration components (namely VMware Tools) to improve their performance and behavior on the ESX platform.
    27 June 2008
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Guest • Shops • Hosts • Degree • Next Generation

  • VMware Infrastructure 3.5

    In VI3, VMotion is used to migrate VMs from one ESX host to another, provided that each ESX host shares access to the same central storage volume on an network file system (NFS), Internet SCSI or Fibre Channel device.
    18 December 2007
    Tags: Automated • Vm • Wizard • Shops • Stability • Balancing

  • Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.1

    We spawned multiple sessions with UML that shared media and hardware resources using a method vaguely similar to VMWare ESX Server. Administrators can manage Apache, Samba, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Network File System, users…
    15 December 2004
    Tags: Cpus • Compatibility • Suse • Sessions • Profiles • Wider

White Papers

  • How to Protect Growing VMware Environments

    Yet, as virtual machines proliferate and more ESX Servers are added to these environments, administrators who are tasked with protecting their growing virtual data centers often face added layers of complexity.Depending on the third-party backup…
    23 January 2009
    Tags: Environments • Recovery • Vmware • Esx • Complexity • Ensuring

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