PALO ALTO, Calif., December 21, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced independent research convincingly proves that VMware customers are drastically lowering operational expenditures (OpEx) with VMware solutions. VMware vSphere™ and the VMware vCenter™ Product Family lower the [...]
I'm not sure if it's part of the official documentation to VMware Server, but seeing as a few people failed to connect to their VMware Server 2.x using Infrastructure Client, I thought I'd explain how exactly this can be done. Why use Infrastructure Client to manage VMware Server There are three reasons I can think [...]
I really like managing VMware ESX servers through VMware Infrastructure Client (using 2.5 version at the moment), but there's one little thing which really annoys me: most of VM-specific confirmations are asked with dialogue windows which don't mention the name of the VM they apply to. For example, if I right-click the VM and decide [...]
If you were thinking of getting yourself a VMware Workstation, here's your chance to do it 25% cheaper! If you go to the VMware Workstation Product page and click Buy Now, proceeding to the checkout will allow you to type in a promo code. Use this one to get a 25% discount: CyberMondayDeal. There's not [...]
It's time for another round of desktop virtualization news – they're mostly based on my news feeds, so if I do miss somethin – please take the time to let me know! Acquisitions IBM is to acquire Transitive via InformationWeek I'm really impressed with the flexibility Transitive gives you: it's a cross-platform virtualization solution, which [...]
I'm going through a rather busy week, so only one thing from the news today: VMware releases Workstation 6.5! New features in VMware Workstation 6.5 Seamless desktop experience with Unity Support for DirectX 3D graphic Simplify creating Windows and Linux virtual machines with Easy Install VM record and replay for groundbreaking debugging Create ACE encrypted [...]
With the ever-increasing number of exciting changes and news in desktop virtualization space, I think this website needs regular summaries, and they will probably look similar to this post today. Let me know if you like the format and whether you want me to change or add anything. VMware news VMworld 2008 is happening in [...]
Seems like the exact list of differences between VMware ESX and ESXi has been a very popular question lately. If you're interested in all the details, I've got some great links to share: What is VMware ESX server 3i (ESXi) VMware ESX and ESXi comparison – VMware KB article Networking differences between ESX and ESXi [...]
Doing a few experiments with VMware ESX 3.5 today, I've made a typo (twice!) when setting up a password for one of the systems, and this resulted in me locking myself out of ESX server upon the completion of its install. Luckily, there's a rather easy way to change the forgotten password to something new, [...]
I'm pretty sure I have mentioned it in one of the VirtualBox announcement posts: if you have an existing VMware VM disk image with your OS installed in it, you don't even have to convert it when you switch to Sun xVM VirtualBox. Booting VMware VMs with Windows hangs in VirtualBox VirtualBox natively supports VMware [...]
