Recently I ran into an interesting scenario in which I used the VMware Converter 4.0 to P2V (Physical to Virtual) machines on a stand-alone training network to VMware Workstation/Player images on a removable harddrive. I then took those images and used Converter to put them on ESX 4.0. Everything went smoothly. When I attempted to [...]
Dear VMware,
In case you hadn’t heard, I wanted to formerly notify you that Microsoft will be releasing its next generation operating system: Windows 7 this month on October 22, 2009. I hope you will be able to make it a supported Guest platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Ryan
Ok, seriously… I was told by VMware in [...]
Now that vSphere from VMware is officially available, the first thing on many people’s minds is “when can I get it?” Ok, so maybe you aren’t quite that eager to uproot the stability of your virtual datacenter and upgrade to the latest and greatest next weekend, but the new featureset is compelling enough to start [...]
I have already talked about the new Replay Debugging functionality that is now a part of VMware Workstation 6.5 in my previous article (”Replay Debugging: The Future of Software Development“). I truly do believe that this represents the new way that things will be done in the years to come and we will look back [...]
After the dramatic licensing mix up with ESX and ESXi yesterday, VMware was quick to respond with a blog post from their CEO. In short, the issue was caused because the time switch was not removed when update 2 went into release mode. VMware CEO Paul Martiz says that they are reevaluating their QA and [...]
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?
VMware announced today the release of the Public Beta of their latest management/automation tool called “VMware Stage Manager.” The new product is intended to provide administrators a new platform to “stage” new application role outs before putting it live into production. Essentially, this addresses the burden of maintaing “test”, “development”, and “test” environments and trying [...]