Posts Tagged ‘Virtualization’

Fusion 3.0 Released, Demand is High

Posted by Ryan on October 27th, 2009 under Headlines, Mac, Uncategorized, VMware
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Today was the long awaited release of VMware’s Fusion 3.0 for everyone who has upgraded to Mac.  It would seem that things are off to a good (?) start…  VMware posted this on their Facebook feed this afternoon:

“Too much demand making it hard for everyone to get their VMware Fusion 3 upgrade. While we make [...]

From The Open Road: Will “good enough” virtualization topple VMware?

Posted by Todd on July 2nd, 2009 under Microsoft, VMware
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Matt Asay just posted an interesting article about how virtualization products such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V could potentially make VMware turn out like Novell. His article has a point. While VMware is widely known as one of the best virtualization products out there, it could change in the future because of products like Hyper-V, and it’s [...]

Virtualizing OS X Tiger

Posted by Mike on June 9th, 2009 under Mac, Solutions, VMware
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Before we begin, I would like to preface this blog post: The steps and topics contained in this post are purely theoretical and are meant to appeal to academia only. The staff at VMHero assumes no liability for any infringement which may occur as a result of following any of the steps below. We do not [...]

vSphere Licensing Explained

Posted by Ryan on May 23rd, 2009 under Headlines, VMware
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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 [...]

Virtualization Training Update

Posted by Ryan on May 10th, 2009 under training
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Earlier this year I posted regarding formalized virtualization training curriculum that we were going to launching in our organization.  I have received many e-mails since then asking for an update and how it has been going, so, here it is…
So far, we have conducted a handful of sessions with our Introduction to Virtutalization session with [...]

Virtual Mac Test Lab

Posted by Ryan on May 10th, 2009 under Mac, Solutions, VMware
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The Apple platform has recently become an active part of our software development platform.  I set out to build a virtualized Mac test and development environment in the same way that we have been doing for the Windows and Linux world for some time now.  One of things I have quickly discovered is that although [...]

Hak5’s introduction to VMware virtualization

Posted by Todd on May 1st, 2009 under Solutions, VMware
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Hak5, a web TV show distributed by Revision3 is currently making short tutorials to virtualization, more specifically on VMware ESX. In the first part of this series they are doing on this topic, Matt Lestock, one of the show’s co-hosts, is describing the setup used at the company that he works for. In part 2, [...]