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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. This is a quick first look at VMware vSphere 4. I’ll be ...

We need to do a VMware consolidation down from 4.0 Enterprise to 5.1 Essentials Plus. I have 4 hosts that are going to be retired as part of the migration but I need to get the VMs off of them first.

I want to try out VMware ESXi 4 u1 on some modest hardware, but the installation fails because it could not detect a supported NIC. My current setup: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard (Intel P35 ...

Your skills working with Microsoft Hyper-V won't translate over to just any hypervisor. So, here's what you'll need to know to get up to speed with VMware's ESXi 4. Even though Hyper-V has always been ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

After nearly nine months since the announcement of VMware vSphere 4.0, VMware is finally making available a public draft copy of a security hardening guide that can be used to help securely deploy ...

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 ...