General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch

A new VMware ESX 5.1 Patch is available as of February 27, 2014. Issues resolved in this patch: ESXi host might lose network connectivity when the network heap memory, netGPheap, is exhausted, resulting from a known memory leak. In the vmkernel.log file you see entries similar to: “Heap: 2525: Heap netGPHeap already at its maximum… Continue reading General Availability of VMware ESXi 5.1 Patch

Capgemini and VMware to Create Business Cloud Orchestration Solutions

Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced they have expanded their strategic partnership to jointly develop new solutions. The move will extend Capgemini’s service integration, aggregation and orchestration platform by leveraging VMware’s industry leading cloud management offerings.… Continue reading Capgemini and VMware to Create Business Cloud Orchestration Solutions

VMware Cloud Management Helps Drive Adoption of Software-Defined Data Center Architecture

VMware Cloud Management solutions are helping customers achieve the promise of the software-defined data center architecture, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced today at VMworld® 2013. With best-in-class cloud automation, cloud operations, and cloud business management solutions, VMware delivers a comprehensive product portfolio to help simplify and automate… Continue reading VMware Cloud Management Helps Drive Adoption of Software-Defined Data Center Architecture

VMware Delivers vCloud Hybrid Service

Today at VMworld® 2013, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced the general availability of the new VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™, new data center locations, and new capabilities to make it simple to bring existing and new cloud-native applications to the public cloud. “Since its debut on May 21,… Continue reading VMware Delivers vCloud Hybrid Service

HP and VMware Enable Customers to Unify Data Center Networks

HP and VMware, Inc. today announced plans to collaborate to deliver the industry’s first federated network solution, designed to provide customers unified automation of, and visibility into, their physical and virtual data center networks, enabling business agility and improving business continuity.(1) As companies embrace cloud and mobility, manual network configuration has proven time and resource… Continue reading HP and VMware Enable Customers to Unify Data Center Networks

EMC and VMware Join Forces Around Software-Defined Storage and VMware Virtual SAN

As customers continue their march toward ever-simplified IT infrastructure, lower costs and increased business agility, EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE:VMW) today at VMworld ®2013 announced a major investment and commitment focused on rapid advancement of software-defined storage architectures and emerging models for the way applications consume storage in virtualized environments. Initial offerings emerging from… Continue reading EMC and VMware Join Forces Around Software-Defined Storage and VMware Virtual SAN

What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

VMware vSphere® 5.5 introduces many new features and enhancements to further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. This paper will discuss features and capabilities of the vSphere platform, including vSphere ESXi Hypervisor™, VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, storage networking and vSphere Big Data Extensions. This paper is… Continue reading What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Release

VMware Unveils Next-Generation Products and Services to Further Enable the Software-Defined Data Center

Addressing the needs of organizations to simplify IT, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today at VMworld® 2013 announced a wave of new products and services designed to help IT accelerate their adoption of a software-defined data center architecture and take advantage of the value of advanced virtualization in… Continue reading VMware Unveils Next-Generation Products and Services to Further Enable the Software-Defined Data Center