VMware announced the new version of its core data center product, vSphere 6.5, at VMworld Barcelona last week. With it, as always, comes new ESXi and vCenter features—and make no mistake, there are some great ones! One thing I personally liked is the attention to the...
With VMworld 2016 US coming to a close, there’s no time like the present to review one of the major tracks from the conference. Up first, one of the main pillars of VMware automation and scripting: PowerCLI. A PowerCLI primer: PowerCLI is a VMware-focused extension to...
One of the most common questions we receive regarding VMware vSphere environments (and virtualization environments in general) is how to set up virtual networking. While a misconfigured environment can still work properly, issues still arise with scalability,...
With the ecommerce industry growing each year, international business is no longer an enterprise-only sport. With small and midsize companies entering the global footprint game, their IT infrastructure needs to follow suit as they seek to engage and keep customers...
In previous versions of VMware vSphere, real-time fault tolerance (FT) was only possible for single vCPU VMs. The problem was that most modern apps need more than one CPU. That’s why it’s no surprise that virtualization admins everywhere are thrilled about...
