I’m not sure how many vSphere beta participants spent some time with the new version of VMware Orchestrator, or vCO, but I certainly did and I’m happy to say the product completely rocks. I have looked at a few of the orchestration tools on the market, and this is easily the best I’ve seen to [...]
I know, this one caught me totally by surprise as well, but it’s true. We don’t actually use this switch when creating vmdk’s, but after seeing some _shocking_ statistics from our environment, whereby most VM’s with additional vmdk’s were using under 10% of their provisioned space, I decided to look into it.
Now I certainly don’t [...]
I was under the impression that some of these products were still in super secret squirrel status, but as they’re now appearing on the VMware Products homepage, I guess that’s no longer the case!
Since you’re all going to go and check out the VMware spiel anyways, I won’t bother repeating it here.
What I will say [...]
I’m not going to try and claim credit for this development, but Rich Brambley (the only blog with a description that I feel outshines my own broke the news today that the free version ESXi 3 Update 3 appears to have a fully functional API. I plan on testing this out tomorrow, and [...]
Why do I always seem to be the bad guy. I know the other guys dont gloss over the limitations or realities of product features on purpose, but sheesh it always seems to be me cutting a swathe of destruction through the marketing hype. Somehow I don’t think I will be in contention for VVP [...]
I’m going to try and resist the urge to make this post another ‘effenheimer’ (as Mr Boche might say but my mind boggles as to WTF the ThinApp team were thinking when they made this post. Way to call out a major shortcoming of your own product guys! To be honest, I’m completely [...]
