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Book: VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise

VMware ESX creates a myriad of problems for administrators, specifically problems having to do with the scheduling of various operations around the use of normal tools and other everyday activities such as deployments, VMotion to balance nodes, and backups. Most, if not all, the limitations revolve around issues related to performance gathering and the data stores upon which VMs are placed, whether SCSI, including iSCSI, or non-VMDK files accessed from NFS shared off a NAS or some other system.

| Feature | Virtualization | 08/27/08 at 9:11 am |


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VMware tool aims to help developers

VMware wants to make it easier for IT departments to manage the virtual machine configurations that they use for testing or developing software, and will release an upgraded Lab Manager tool on Thursday.

| News | Development | SOA | Virtualization | 08/04/08 at 12:08 pm |


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