EXANODES VM EDITION STORAGE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE NOW SHIPPING

Boston, May xx, 2009 – Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced first official customer shipments of its Storage Virtual Appliance, the award-winning Exanodes™ software for VMware environments.
Exanodes VM Edition Storage Virtual Appliance (SVA) is ideal for designing high-end, clustered virtual iSCSI SANs that leverage the storage resources of [...]

NetApp ESX Host Utilities vCenter plugin

Last week we showed a NetApp demo at VMworld Europe of the NetApp ESX Host Utilities Kit (HUK) running as a vCenter Plugin.
Thus far, the Host Utilities, including the current 5.0R2 release needed to be installed at the console of each ESX host. With the 6.0 release this will changes and a single vCenter plugin [...]

VMware “moderately critical” security advisory: ESX Patch against malicious DoS attack

Holes are being increasingly found and patched by VMware. The more ESX is deployed in the enterprise, the more vulnerabilities will be shown. So go ahead ahead and get a security scan/ assessment done on your environment. Is is secure enough?
Issues at hand here:
1. As VMware states, its an isue with loading a corrupt delta [...]

Replicate Datacenter Analyzer 1.2: Predictive Analytical tool with ESXi support

MENLO PARK, Calif. – January 20, 2009 – Replicate Technologies™, the leader in predictive fault management for the unified data center, today announced a new software update for its flagship product, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer™. The new release, Replicate Datacenter Analyzer (RDA) 1.2, expands its best practices library to add IP Knowledge Modules that [...]

Virtual Computer: Meet the killer of the “traditional VDI”

I had long suggested in one of my posts on several ESX models when I was playing around with the VMware’s future strategy with some versions of ESX. ESXtreme, ESXlite and ESXstd. ESXlite would have gone directly to the desktop and be built in desktops and mobile that would have been bought by customers of [...]

Vizioncore first to correctly back up VMware ESXi

As Doug correctly points out in the comments, Veeam has been doing that since July. My bad - I had a one-on-one session with veeam guys some months back here in our offices at Atos Origin and indeed we saw some cool features of the backup tools back then already.
The problem with supporting ESXi, which [...]

Comparing VMware configurations with Powershell

This one is pretty neat work especially when discrepancies in ESX configs across a VM farm could be probelamatic for admins/IT managers/Change managers. Nice work this.
Comparing datastores:
function Compare-VMHostDatastores
{
param([string]$host1,[string]$host2)
$a = Get-VMHost $host1 | Get-Datastore | %{$_.Name}
$b = Get-VMHost $host2 | Get-Datastore | %{$_.Name}
Compare-Object $a $b
}
Compare-VMHostDatastores esxServer1 esxServer2
InputObject                         SideIndicator
———–                                ————-
esxServer1_Local             <=
esxServer2_Local             =>
DATASTORE_TEST1         =>
And comparing Port Groups:
function [...]

Realtime Monitoring with Veeam’s Free Monitoring tool!

The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view of key performance metrics across your virtual ESXi infrastructure.
With Veeam Monitor, you [...]

VMware ESX vs ESXi Comparison

Capability

VMware ESX

VMware ESXi

Service Console

Service Console is a standard Linux environment through which a user has privileged access to the VMware ESX kernel. This Linux-based privileged access allows you to highly customize your environment by installing agents and drivers and executing scripts and other Linux-environment code.

VMware ESXi is designed to make the server a computing appliance. [...]

VMware’s ESX 3.5 wins hand down against Hyper-V!

VMware’s Virtual Center management platform is also mature and straightforward in how an administrator can use it to control resident VMs on a VMware host. VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure Client (VIC) is the administrative user interface to the VMware Virtual Center platform.
Microsoft’s System Center-Virtual Machine Manager (SC-VMM) 2008 (we tested a very late beta version [...]