Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE]First, to be clear, vSphere 5.0 has two choices for implementing vCenter Server. One works, and one still needs some work.The vCenter Server that works is the traditional vCenter as it has been shipped for several versions of vSphere. This version is installed on a Windows Server system. It works, so there isn’t much more […]

[WP_IMAGE] HTML 5. This week at VMworld in Las Vegas and Dreamforce in San Francisco, both companies pushed HTML 5 as a “write once, deliver everywhere” mechanism. IT managers who are hearing about the “consumerization of IT” might use this time to ask, “how much longer can IE 6 be the corporate standard web browser?”The […]

LAS VEGAS-VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware’s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. “The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told the crowd of 19,000. […]

[WP_IMAGE]VMware vSphere 5.0 does away with the ESX hypervisor. Starting now, the name of the game is ESXi. VMware has neatly outlined the differences here.Bottom line: if your organization was using third-party tools that plugged in via the ESX Service Console, you should check to see if those tools have been approved for use in […]

VMware vSphere 5.0 has a number of “firsts.” Tomorrow I’ll talk about the ESXi-only approach to hypervisor implementation. Today I’d like to talk about the vCenter Server Appliance. In vSphere 4.1 (the most current, previous version of vSphere), the vCenter Server was supported on Windows OSes, usually Windows Server 2003 64?bit. The vCenter Server could […]

VMware vSphere 5.0 continues to set the pace for data center x86 server virtualization and remains the clear leader for IT managers who need a virtual infrastructure that can handle production workloads while containing operational costs. The vSphere 5.0 ship date is imminent but as yet undisclosed; however, eWEEK Labs obtained an advance copy. In […]

[WP_IMAGE]VMware vSphere 5.0 marks a step forward for the vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) with the addition of a SPAN monitoring port and user-definable network resource pools, and virtual-to-physical configuration of QoS using 802.1 tagging.These are all advances in virtual switch infrastructure. The next step is to make networking as easy to implement as creating a […]

VMware vSphere 5.0will release “soon” but I’ve been working with the code for several weeks. You can see my slideshow here. My eWEEK review will be published shortly. Here I want to take a bit more space to further elaborate on my experiences with the premier x86 virtualization platform. To begin, these next several blog […]

License Theres been a lot of hoopla made over how will VMware charge for vSphere licenses. Heres a look at what youre buying. Relationship Map After the in-place upgrade of two vSphere 4.1 ESX hosts to vSphere 5.0 and ESXi, here is the relationship map view of our infrastructure. Syslog vCenter 5 is more talkative […]

[WP_IMAGE]Before I describe my conversion of eWEEK Labs test infrastructure from VMware vSphere 4.1 to the yet-to-be released vSphere 5, I’ll summarize the basics of the new release. This version supports giant VMs that stamp out the vestigial resistance to running workloads in a virtualized, x86 environment. It also sets new maximums that enable the […]