Virtualization Team

When VMware ESX & When VMware ESXi

Eiad — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:52:12 +0000

I have seen tons of articles talking about the differences between VMware ESX & VMware ESXi, but I have not seen many that discuss when to use them. I have noticed that many of my customers get even more confused when reading comparisons between the two, as not all of them have deep understanding of [...]

VizionCore esxReplicator (vReplicator) vs Veeam Backup & Replication

Eiad — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:20:02 +0000

After a week of testing and fuzzing with both VizionCore vReplicator originally known by esxReplicator as well Veeam Backup & Replication, I was able to be one of the contributor to the new comparison at ITComparison.com. The comparison titled VizionCore vReplicator (esxReplicator) vs Veeam Backup & Replication covers many important aspects of the two products. [...]

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4 has just been released

Eiad — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:53:43 +0000

I have a great news today from VMware. They have released the new version of VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM which will support VMware vSphere. This release of SRM had been long waited by many of us who upgraded, or already planning to upgrade to vSphere. I thought I will share the good news with [...]

DHCP is not working on MS Windows 2008 Hyper-V

Eiad — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:22:27 +0000

I have been hearing many IT Professionals on many forums on the web complaining that their DHCP Server which is setup at the parent partition of their MS Windows 2008 Hyper-V Server is not working. Further more many of them has reported an error similar to the below one in their error logs: 1041: The DHCP service [...]

Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is not too cheap

virtualized1970 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:23:05 +0000

I was reading Manlio Vecchiet article “Microsoft’s new VDI licensing: VDI Suites” can be found here. I believe its quite misleading, but hey fair enough being a part of the Microsoft Marketing Team. I had left a comment on the article, but as it seems it had never made it on there. I thought I [...]

Nokia N800 & VMware Mobile Virtualization

Eiad — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:02:44 +0000

VMware seems to always come up with innovations that blow people mind. One of the latest VMware innovations I was checking out is VMware Mobile Virtualization. Let’s see how VMware define Mobile Virtualization. As per VMware, Mobile Virtualization(MVP) is a thin layer of software that is embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications and [...]

VMware ESX How to enable SNMP

Eiad — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:51:34 +0000

As many VMware ESX monitoring tools are hitting the market place, and with the tend of these tools being dependent on SNMP (example: Starwind Free VM Monitor for VMware ESX), the more I am getting the question on how can I enable SNMP on my VMware ESX Server.. The instruction below will cover how to [...]

SolarWind Free VM Monitor tool for VMware ESX

Eiad — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:02:02 +0000

SolarWind has released a new VMware ESX Monitoring tool called VM Monitor. The new tool can monitor the status & utilizaiton of your ESX Servers as well your Virtual Machines. SolareWind VM Monitor uses the SNMP Service on VMware ESX to monitor your enviornment. As VMware ESXi does not support SNMP queries, it’s still not [...]

VMware Capacity Planner still missing the Intel Nehalem processor

Eiad — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:54:23 +0000

I know many Virtualization Consultants who all are still wondering where is the Intel Nehalem processor in the VMware Capacity Planner. The Nehalem processor has already hit the market more than 6 months back, VMware still has not update their Capacity Planner to include it. We all know that the Nehalem processor is providing a [...]

Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT

Eiad — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0000

This article title say “Sony VAIO laptops disabled Intel VT“, but what should that mean to you. It should mean the world to a lot of us. It should mean think twice trice before you buy a Sony VAIO laptop, due to the amount of limitation that come with disabling Intel VT. Ok, let’s see [...]