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Updated Enterprise hypervisor comparison

Erik Scholten — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:03:49 +0000

During the last few years we published several Enterprise Hypervisor comparisons and we got very positive comments and feedback on it. With the release of vSphere 5, XenServer 6 and a service pack for Hyper-V it was time for an update. It very interesting to see how some of the products have improved over the [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware vSphere clustering Q&A (VSP1682)

Erik Scholten — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:58:59 +0000

Today I attended session VSP1682 ‘VMware vSphere clustering Q&A‘ hosted by Frank Denneman, Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti. After a short introduction the Q&A started and below you will find my top 10 questions. Q1. Are the old, vSphere 4, constraints in vSphere 5 still current? Until vSphere 5 the best practice is [...]

by Erik Scholten

Why can’t I run your OS on my virtual box, Steve?

Alex Muetstege — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:13:11 +0000

Ever since I’ve been working on a Apple Classic II, many many years ago, I was caught by the way of thinking at Cupertino. Design combined with functionality was actually possible! Well, back then we thought it was beautiful, anyway Now, many years have gone by, a lot of people in the world seem to [...]

by Alex Muetstege

Waiting is over – download vSphere 5 now!

Erik Scholten — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:19:03 +0000

After the release on July 12th, you can now download VMware vSphere 5 and enjoy the 150 new features. You can find the downloads here. For more information visit: VMware ESXi and VMware ESX Info Center VMware vSphere 5 release notes. If you want to upgrade your existing VMware vSphere installation, check out my previous [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to: Upgrade to vSphere 5

Erik Scholten — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:26:56 +0000

On July 12th, VMware announced the release of vSphere 5. With the release comes the challenge to upgrade your existing installation. However, there are a few caveats: vSphere 5 is the first version which comes in a ESXi version ONLY! ESXi 5 is available in an embedded or installable version. If you’re running ESX 3.x [...]

by Erik Scholten

vRAM licensing with VMware View

Erik Scholten — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Since the announcement of VMware vSphere 5, the attention for the great new features has been swapped by the discussion on the new VMware vSphere 5 licensing model. Because of the processor association it looks complicated and expensive but if you do the math, most of the time pricing remains the same. Gabrie van Zanten [...]

by Erik Scholten

New VMware licensing explained

Erik Scholten — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:17:07 +0000

With the introduction of VMware vSphere 5, VMware introduces a new licensing model. VMware will retain a per processor model but they removed some restrictions which were in the vSphere 4 licensing model. This is mainly regarding the number of cores per processor and the amount of physical memory in a host on which vSphere [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware announces vSphere 5

Erik Scholten — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:26:54 +0000

Today VMware had planned a webcast named ‘Raising the bar. Part V’. It was a public secret that they were going to announce VMware vSphere 5 and indeed they did. But on top of that VMware also new released new versions of vCloud Director (1.5), vCenter SRM (5.0) and vShield (5.0). To accomplish this VMware [...]

by Erik Scholten

How to calculate electrical costs for cooling and power consumption

Edwin Weijdema — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:59:55 +0000

For putting together a business case costs and revenues are an important part of it. If you want to calculate the direct resource costs associate with hosting a server in your data center, you want to know the direct power consumption by the server in electrical costs and the costs associated with cooling the environment [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

ESXi 4.1 installation fails – Unable to find the system image

Erik Scholten — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:19:38 +0000

Earlier this week I already told you that I’ve build a new ESXi whitebox but I had some problems installing it. OK, first of all, what was the situation? I wanted to install VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 1 to a USB stick which is VMware certified.I plugged the USB stick into one of the USB ports [...]

by Erik Scholten