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HP Flex 10 vs VMware vSphere Network I/O Control for VDI

Published on December 16, 2011 By Dwayne Lessner

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 [...]

Will the New VMware vSphere 5 Licensing Affect Blade Vendors? (PART 2)

Published on August 8, 2011 By Thales Osterne

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?

Published on July 20, 2011 By Thales Osterne

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.