Archive for July, 2008

We want to hear from you!  If you are currently using ESX in your environment, how has the release of ESXi free licensing altered your virtualization strategy going forward?

As reported in my post last Thursday, the VMware ESXi Hypervisor is now available as a free download.  Register for the download here.

It appears that VMware will soon be making a move to better compete against Microsoft’s “free” hypervisor: the company will be offering ESX 3i for free.
 According to several sources, VMware will begin giving away its lightweight hypervisor beginning July 28th.  Read the full articles here and here.
 This move by VMware could be the “shot heard round the world” [...]

VMware’s Mac virtualization platform, Fusion, allows users to run in two different I/O modes.  You can optimize for Virtual Machine Disk performance, or you can choose to optimize for other Mac applications running on the system.  The second option uses unbuffered I/O so that Fusion takes up less memory on the system.
After finding that this [...]

Ok, so, by now you’ve heard the news (unless you’ve been too worried about standing in line for your new iPhone).  Earlier this month we were shocked to find out that Diane Greene was removed as CEO of VMware, to be replaced by Paul Maritz.  I’m not going to go into the all of the [...]

What is Oracle VM?
According to Oracle, Oracle VM is a free virtualization platform that will speed up your delivery and productivity time, and make managing your virtual machines oh so easy. Our tests revealed that it is more along the lines of a painstakingly irritating installation on more machines than necessary, which yield laughably bad results.
What’s [...]