Memory management and compression in vSphere 4.1

4 August, 2010

With vSphere 4.1, VMware released a great new feature called Memory compression. At first, after reading the release notes I thought memory compression was just one step before swapping to disk would occur. However, after reading the whitepaper “Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX 4” I learned some more details I want to share [...]

Setting logfile location, swap file, SNMP and vmkcore partition in ESXi

26 July, 2010

With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1 it has become even more apparent that the next vSphere release will only have an ESXi version. This isn’t world shocking news since VMware had announce this already at VMworld 2009, but somehow many have been triggered to finally make the switch and install ESXi on their ESX [...]

VMware vSphere 4.1 released – What’s new?

13 July, 2010

As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and we can finally start blogging about VMware vSphere’s latest features. In the next few days I will post a number [...]

First vSphere Plugin for WordPress! by Nicholas Weaver

On my blog, on the right hand, the last widget on the page is called “Home Lab” and shows the current state of my ESX lab at home. This WordPress plugin is written by Nicholas Weaver. Its a great little tool.
Copied from his site:
What if there was a WordPress plugin that would display stats from [...]

[RUMOR] VMware to buy Novell?

30 June, 2010

This week I’ve had some questions from people on how this “Strategic Partnership” between Novell and VMware, could be the first step to VMware buying Novell or a number of products from Novell. This got me thinking on if that could really be an interesting move for VMware.
Let’s see what Novell has, that could be [...]