How to create new VM in vSphere 5.1 Web Client

In this how-to tutorial we will look at how deploy a new virtual machine (VM) using the new VMware vSphere 5.1 Web Client. The new vSphere 5.1 web client is web/browser based full featured, intuitive and provides all the features of the installable client. This is going to be one of the first how-to guides… Continue reading How to create new VM in vSphere 5.1 Web Client

Free Training: VMware vSphere 5.1: What’s New Course

This training course explores new features in VMware vCenter Server™ 5.1 and VMware ESXi™ 5.1. Objectives: By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding and should be able to implement the following new functions and features of VMware vSphere® 5.1: Compute and Storage Support for hardware version 9, the latest CPU performance… Continue reading Free Training: VMware vSphere 5.1: What’s New Course

VMware vSphere 5.1 Released, Ready for Download

VMware vSphere 5.1 is now released and available for download. Customers who have purchased VMware vSphere 5.1 can download their relevant installation package from the product download tab below. Looking to upgrade from vSphere 4 or Infrastructure 3? Visit the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center. Deploy vSphere 5.1 on the ESXi hypervisor architecture VMware vSphere 5.1… Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.1 Released, Ready for Download

VMware vSphere 5.1 Upgrade Guide

VMware vSphere 5.1 is now available for download. This vSphere Upgrade guide describes how to upgrade VMware vSphere™ to version 5.1. To learn how to simplify and automate your datacenter upgrade, see the vSphere Update Manager Installation and Administration Guide. If you want to move to vSphere 5.1 by performing fresh installations that do not… Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.1 Upgrade Guide

VMware vSphere 5.1 vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices

A series of tests were conducted at VMware Performance labs to investigate and compare the performance implications of vSphere 5.1 vMotion over the proven vMotion and Storage vMotion technologies in various scenarios including the migration of a database server and an in-memory application. In addition, live migration tests were performed over metro area network scenarios.… Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.1 vMotion Architecture, Performance and Best Practices

Mellanox 40GbE Solutions Deliver Record Virtualization Performance Over VMware ESXi 5.1

VMworld US 2012 Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX) (TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its end-to-end 40GbE solution running over VMware ESXi 5.1 enables a new price/performance record for virtualized data centers. Benchmark results achieved a sustainable rate of more than… Continue reading Mellanox 40GbE Solutions Deliver Record Virtualization Performance Over VMware ESXi 5.1

EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

VMworld 2012 – Solution Highlights VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client. VMware vSphere Data… Continue reading EMC Avamar Powers New VMware vSphere Data Protection Solution

VMware vSphere 5.1 New Features and Enhancements

Vmware announced the new release of its virtualization software, vSphere 5. Below is just brief list of new features. VMware vSphere 5.1 Features Setup and Install vSphere 5.1 will introduce two installation methods: vSphere Simple Install – allows you to install required vSphere vCenter server components in a single run. vSphere Custom Install – allows… Continue reading VMware vSphere 5.1 New Features and Enhancements