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HP Flex 10 vs VMware vSphere Network I/O Control for VDI
I once was a huge fan of HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Modules but with the new enhancements to VMware vSphere 5, I don’t think I would recommend for virtual environments anymore. The ability to divide the two onboard network cards up to 8 NICS was a great feature and still is, if you have to do [...]
Customer Success Story with Dell, Citrix and VMware
I always find it interesting to hear how customers are using blade server technology “in the real world.” Brickworks, a $1.7 billion Australian brick company with over 60 locations and 1,000 employees, recently provided The Australian with details about how Citrix XenApp Enterprise combined with VMware vSphere and Dell rack and blade servers helped develop a more efficient workplace for its [...]
Will the New VMware vSphere 5 Licensing Affect Blade Vendors? (PART 2)
Since my last post, I heard lots of rumors that VMware would make some changes in their new licensing model. Well, this week VMware made an official announcement of changes and posted here. VMware made very clear that all the changes were motivated by the feedbacks they have received:
Will the New VMware vSphere 5 Licensing Affect Blade Vendors?
As you no doubt heard by now, VMware has announced a new version of vSphere along with some new or improved features however, this post will not highlight these features. In this post, I want to talk about what did not improve – the licensing.
What Is Your Ideal VMware Lab Environment?
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been researching what are the “ideal” configurations for a home VMware vSphere lab. Ideally, it would be small enough to run a few virtual machines and demonstrate high availability features like vMotion, DRS, HA or even FT. The problem that I’ve run into is that I haven’t found [...]
A Plea to VMWorld Attendees
As VMworld 2010 is right around the corner, I wanted to take a few minutes to make a plea to all attendees. This year, IF you receive a bag or backpack that you just don’t want, please don’t throw it away, but instead take it home, go to the dollar store and fill the backpack [...]
(UPDATED) Best Blade Server for VMware Is…
(Updated to include links to results) I’ve had a few questions lately about “the best” blade server to use for virtualization – specifically VMware virtualization. While the obvious answer is “it depends”, I thought it would be an interesting approach to identify the blade servers that ranked in the top 5 in VMware’s VMmark benchmark. [...]
Dell FlexMem Bridge Helps Save 50% on Virtualization Licensing
Let’s face it. Virtualization is everywhere. Odds are there is something virtualized in your data center. If not, it soon will be. As more workloads become virtualized, chances are you are going to run out of “capacity” on your virtualization host. When a host’s capacity is exhausted, 99% of the time it is because the host [...]
Announcing IBM eX5 Portfolio and the HX5 Blade Server
UPDATED: 3/2/2010 at 12:58 PM EST Author’s Note: I’m stretching outside of my “blades” theme today so I can capture the entire eX5 messaging. Finally, all the hype is over. IBM announced today the next evolution of their “Enterprise x-Architecture”, also known as eX5. Why eX5? Simple: e=Enterprise X=x-Architecture 5=fifth generation. IBM’s Enterprise x-Architecture has been [...]
Cisco Takes Top 8 Core VMware VMmark Server Position
Cisco is getting some (more) recognition with their UCS blade server product, as they recently achieved the top position for “8 Core Server” on VMware’s VMmark benchmark tool. VMmark is the industry’s first (and only credible) virtualization benchmark for x86-based computers. According to the VMmark website, the Cisco UCS B200 blade server reached a score of 25.06 @ [...]
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