eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. VMware vSphere 5.0 has a number of “firsts.” Tomorrow I’ll ...

Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...

The appliance model is here to stay and when done correctly, it works well. That's the case with the vCenter Server Appliance, which I've been using for a while in various capacities, including some ...

With the release of vSphere 6.5, the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is on par with the Windows vCenter Server, and so I chose to migrate my existing Windows based vCenter Server to it. VCSA has been ...

There are several reasons to move your VMWare vCenter server to new hardware. You might want to replace an aging machine that has become less stable, or you might want to take advantage of newer ...

Looking at moving our Vsphere 4 installation up to 5 in the next 6-12 months. One feature (aside from bitching about the vRAM entitlement licensing "feature") that DOES look like something a customer ...

VMware on Wednesday unveiled a major upgrade to its hyper-converged infrastructure software stack, and in the process signaled the possible end of its EVO:Rail product. The new edition, Virtual SAN ...

With the latest releases of vSphere and vSAN, VMware continues to build up support for customers interested in hybrid cloud options. The updates included in vSphere 6.7, VMware's hypervisor and ...

VMware informed customers today that vCenter Server 8.0 (the latest version) is still waiting for a patch to address a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability disclosed in November 2021. This ...

Thinking of VMware's dominance in server virtualization made me wonder how the company approaches small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and it occurred to me that the focus is really on enterprises ...