UPDATE: After I published this post I got a response from VMware stating there was an error on their website. The free hypervisor is limited to 32GB physical RAM, there is no longer a vRAM limit. Their website originally reported 32GB vRAM and 32GB physical limit. This has now changed to “For vSphere Hypervisor 5.1, […]
Bookrelease: vSphere 5 Building a Virtual Datacenter
(Sponsored post) Just released is the new book by Eric Maille (Author) and René-Francois Mennecier (Author) named : VMware vSphere 5 Building a Virtual Datacenter. Get it at: Amazon.com. Every year, datacenter managers must deliver more services faster, with greater flexibility. They must efficiently handle soaring amounts of data, and unprecedented levels of complexity. And they must do all this […]
New VMware Licensing, Auto Deploy and All-in-One Solutions
(Zerto was so kind to sponsor GabesVirtualWorld’s trip to VMworld) Our daily VMworld roundups are guest posts from vExpert Gabrie van Zanten. As expected, VMworld proves to be a very exciting event again. Today started with the keynote where Paul Maritz, on stage, officially handed over his job as VMware CEO to Pat Gelsinger. He introduced […]
New vSphere 5.1 and vCloud Suite licensing
After VMware announced their new vCloud Suite 5.1 today, a lot of questions came up on how these new products would be licensed. Especially since VMware got rid of the vRAM licenses and it was announced there would no longer be a limit on cores per CPU. In this post I’ll try to give a […]
CloudPhysics for your permanent health check
A few weeks ago I first saw some mention of CloudPhysics by Duncan on Yellow-Bricks. Duncan’s blogpost describes pretty well what CloudPhysics does (so read it), but in short: CloudPhysics will collect data from your vCenter, upload that data to the CloudPhysics servers and analyse that data and and give you insights and key take-aways. […]