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I recently reached out to virtualization expert David Marshall in the latest of our series of blogger profiles. In addition to being a really nice guy, David has developed a substantial following through his blog (VMBlog at www.vmblog.com) and content on InfoWorld as well as his books on virtualization. So let’s get right…
Would like if there is an error generated or at least a completed with errors notification should there be a virtual machine that did not get backed up but it was apart of the selection. This is in the case of a virtual machine that had been either removed from the machine to another machine or it has been deleted off the…
We compared vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 in terms of their capabilities of Storage Management, Memory Handling & CPU Scheduling earlier in this blog series. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how both the hypervisors help manage data and workload migration and provide virtual machine (VM) mobility. VMware has been offering…
We compared the analyzed vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 in terms of their capabilities of Storage Management and Memory Handling earlier in this blog series. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how both the hypervisors perform CPU scheduling and manage CPU resources. When there’s workload running on a virtual machine (VM), the…
Picking up the discussion from where we left in Part 1 – Storage, let’s move on to explore how vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 handle virtualization memory management. Memory Management in Hyper-V 2012 Hyper-V 2012 offers some distinct memory management options that help avoid memory over-commitment and efficient virtual…
This is one of the most highly trending topics storage and virtualization admins are trying to follow and cash in on. Server virtualization has evolved over the years beyond myths and apprehensions into a stable, secure and much-sought technology for improved productivity and resource efficiency. VMware has been the major…
VDI Storage VDI workloads have made virtual and storage admins look for storage technologies that have higher I/O rates and better performance. While solid state drives (SSD) can be a viable solution to increase storage performance as a whole, administrators still worry about TCO and ROI over the long run. This can…
In the busy world that most IT admins live in, it can be pretty hard to carve out even twenty or thirty minutes to watch a training video. So when we sat down with some of our favorite bloggers to put together a couple comprehensive training videos that were a bit longer, we made sure we could also have a set of short form…
The term virtualization is synonymous with being a technology that is easy, cheap and effective, amazingly packaged in one technology. But because many of the normal limitations found in deploying physical servers have been removed, it can get out of control and begin causing its own problems. VM creation is quick and…
I'm trying to figure out a way to use SNMP to monitor our ESXi 5.0 hosts for CPU and Memory stats. Can anyone provide a little guidance? I couldn't find any pre-made templates that would help with this.
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