One of the great new bits of functionality in ESX 3.5 Update is the ability to hot extend non-boot virtual disks without shutting down the VM.
I decided to give it a go with a Windows 2003 Standard VM and thought I”d provide a How To for anyone that might need/want it.
You can download the pdf [...]
VMware have recently announced an update to 3.5 & ESXi. Normally VMware slip a few cool features into interim releases, but nothing as major as the inclusions in Update 2. Here’s an overview of some of the major functionality additions.
VSS quiescing support – Windows 2003 VMs now have application & file system level [...]
VMware recently published an article on the Virtual Reality blog that raises some interesting points as to why VMware is better than Xen & Hyper-V.
Some of the areas that get particular analysis are:
Uptime
Direct driver model
Memory management
More interesting still are some of the comments to post, have clearly been made by Citrix & Microsoft employees or [...]
Virtualization.info reported today that VMware will give ESXi away completely free.
I have no idea how much revenue was brought in by ESXi, but I”d imagine compared to ESX proper it was a small proportion. Nonetheless it is going to be a big shot in the arm for virtualisation proliferation.
A great move I think, as it [...]
A number of customers have mentioned over the years that surely IBM & HP must be worried about virtualisation impinging on overall hardware sales. I always said that the kinds of servers that people buy for virtualisation are usually significantly more expensive than the customers would previously have purchased. This means that the volume might [...]
Xenocode have released a new version of their Virtual Application Studio and it has some really great features now to rival VMware’s ThinApp including:
Deploy complex apps in a single executable
Stream with no infrastructure changes
Execute .NET and Java with no runtime
Run legacy applications on Vista
Execute on locked-down desktops
Completely user mode implementation
Leverage existing management tools
DataCore Support