“The desktop deployment productivity tools that NetApp and DynamicOps offer significantly increase the value of virtual infrastructures by improving performance, providing essential data management resources, and reducing costs,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances, NetApp. “Enterprises and service providers can now offer multiple, cost-effective service level options for virtual desktop deployments by leveraging the unique orchestration of virtual storage capabilities that are part of the new DynamicOps solution.”
The full release can be found at http://www.dynmaicops.com/news/
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In this tough economy many companies are scrambling to virtualize to cut costs and promote a green environment. Others would like to but with budgetary constraints and freezes they just can’t get the funding to take on a VMware virtualization initiative. Even with the promises of ROI on their horizon once they do so it just doesn’t seem enough for some organizations. Well I’m here to say so what, don’t let a light budget get in your way.
Start with the low hanging fruit, development, and staging machines. Take the initiative to take advantage of these free hypervisors and save your organization some money. Once you do reap the reward. Keep track of how much money you just saved your organization, let everyone know, and not only will you get recognized, but you will just have gained some job security. I’m surprised more organizations are offering cost savings initiative to hep try and curb the expenses and cut back. Think about it, if your company offered a bonus based on savings everyone would be looking for ways to cut costs and cash in on the savings.
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Here is some information about vSphere that I thought would be good to share with the world. As with everything else this is just a drop in the bucket. I’m currently working on putting together some upgrade videos and screenshots so take a look back and hopefully I will have them done by the end of the week.
Here is some interesting information about vSpehere and what it supports keep in mind these are just some notes I jotted down:
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Categories: ESX 4, VI4, VMware, vSphere Tags: ESX, ESX4, green technology, installtion, vCenter, vCenter_Upgrade, VI4, Virtual Center, virtualization, VMware, vsphere
Tuesday April 21st VMware announced they will be releasing vSphere 4 by the end of 2nd quarter. This is exciting news for many looking to take advantage of some of the new features available with this release. In this post I’m going to walk through a handful of some of these new features. There are over 100 new features in vSphere 4 and this post doesn’t come close to covering them all but I will be touching on some really exciting ones with more to come in my next few posts.
Let’s start with the new home screen. It’s a handy way to navigate all the configuration areas of vSphere.
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Categories: Cloud Computing, VMware, vSphere Tags: ESX, green technology, HA, host profiles, vCenter, VI Toolkit, Virtual Center, virtualization, VMware, vsphere
Some are speculating that next Tuesday VMware is going to announce the release of VMware vSphere which is what essentially is Virtual Infrastructure 4.0 which would include ESX 4.0. I can’t say what VMware is going to do but over the next few weeks I will be publishing information on vSphere as well as some instructional videos. For now I have some teasers for you.
Here is a screen shot of the alarms available in vSphere. A you can see they have expanded the alarm feature from what was available in VI3.
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Categories: VMware Tags: Automated Deployment, ESX, ESXi, green technology, HA, installtion, vCenter, Virtual Center, virtualization, VMware, vsphere
So the question is which is better VMware ESX or VMware ESXi. A lot of die hard Linux fans will always say VMware ESX because of there attachment to the service console. The service is a great tool and once upon a time it served it’s purpose. Today there are many other options available to manage your VMware ESX servers without the service console. There is the Remote CLI, the VI ToolKit for Windows (powershell), and last but not least the VIMA.
With these tools you can effectively create scripts to help manage your VMware ESX environment without the service console. The service console opens up an additional security risks for each and every VMware ESX host you have deployed. Mitigating this risk increases the management overhead involved in the maintaining and deployment of these server in your environment. VMware ESX also consumes more server resources than VMware ESXi. The service console in VMware ESX uses CPU cycles and memory that you could be utilizing for virtual machines on VMware ESXi.
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