Thought I would ask the brain trust here for some pointers on this one because it has me absolutely mind boggled. Here is what I have: A 3 host cluster of IBM x3690 X5 ESXi 4.1U1 Embedded hosts with ...

So let's say I have an ESX 4.1 cluster with various luns attached to the hosts through iSCSI, all formatted as VMFS to store VMs. You know, a normal config. Can I have a separate ESX host _not_part_of ...

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with ...

Symantec Corp. announced the availability of Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for VMware's ESX Server. The solution provides advanced monitoring capabilities for applications running inside the virtual ...

Ravello Systems recently announced its new nested virtualization solution that runs VMware ESXi (ESXi) virtual clusters on popular cloud infrastructure like Amazon's AWS and on Google Cloud. Following ...

As a consultant, I've spent quite a bit of time in front of vSphere clusters. In the last couple of years, I've spent a chunk of that time assessing the health of an environment, as well as the ...

The VMware vSphere ecosystem has spawned a lot of interesting tools, some being very expensive, and others being free. In this article I look at how to access and use one of the free -- and more ...