The vCenter Server Appliance has come a long way since its release in vSphere 5.0. It’s gone from “I think it will be a good solution for my lab” in vSphere 5.0 to “wow, I can support as many hosts and clusters as Windows!” in vSphere 6.0. vSphere 6.5 introduces the new era of vCenter, …
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VMware vSphere command line management has always been a big part of managing a vSphere environment. Back in the earlier days of ESX, many used the service console for running scripts, typing commands, or using third party management tools. The introduction of ESXi killed the service console, and attempted to lock down VMware vSphere command …
Recently, I had a friend who has been known as “the network guy” message me after he started a new job, and logged into VMware vCenter for the first time. His goal was to figure out what he needed to do to learn VMware as quickly as possible. While many who are already familiar with …
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) has arrived in the slew of February 2, 2015 announcements from VMware. It was initially announced at VMworld 2014, and has been something I’ve been following closely. One of the key parts of the strategy for any OpenStack cloud is how the software itself will be consumed. Will your organization use …
Free is an interesting term to use when we talk about virtualization platforms, especially the industry leading VMware ESXi. As hypervisors have become standard fare in the data center we are starting to see more questions come up about the costs. Microsoft made a decision to take the hypervisor out of the cost equation by …
At VMworld this year, there was a great deal of talk about VMware and containers. This, of course makes a lot of sense, especially when you look at the parallels between virtual machines and containers. While there are some differences, many of the concepts are the same, and some may even consider containers to be …