Smarter Microsoft licensing can reduce VMware environment costs

27 May, 2009

If you consolidated physical servers with virtualization, you probably did so to reduce the costs of maintaining many physical servers — namely power and cooling, rack space, support contracts, physical hardware and so on.As a consultant, I often work with clients who have embarked on large server consolidation projects, migrated many physical hosts to virtual [...]

Kodiak BlueBear 0.0.3 beta

15 May, 2009

Last night I received a renewed version of the Kodiak BlueBear beta product. The previous version 0.0.2 had a very beautiful interface, one that you normally expect on different types of software but not for managing a Virtual Infrastructure. The new version 0.0.3 promises to get rid of the dreaded SSL errors from 0.0.2 because [...]

Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0

14 May, 2009

Recently I read Mike Laverick’s book titled: “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0″ and I must admit I was impressed by how it is written. In between the lines, I can clearly see the humor of Mike, which of course is not as much in a serious book as this one, but it is enough [...]

Hyper-V Live Migration for free, tough cookie for VMware

6 May, 2009

Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not?
If we compare [...]