FlashSoft Introduces Application Acceleration Solution for VMware vSphere 5

FlashSoft SE-V Applies Enterprise Flash To Accelerate Application Performance in Virtual Machine Environments Based on VMware vSphere 5 FlashSoft Corporation, the Flash Virtualization Company, today announced the immediate commercial availability of FlashSoft SE-V, the company’s solution for accelerating application performance on Windows Server in virtual machine environments based on VMware vSphere 5. The new solution… Continue reading FlashSoft Introduces Application Acceleration Solution for VMware vSphere 5

Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.0

Vmware has relased Performance Best Practices for vSphere 5 and its available by clicking the download link below this short summary. This is a book designed to help system administrators obtain the best performance from vSphere deployments. VMware addressed many of the new features in vSphere 5.0 from a performance perspective. These include: Storage Distributed… Continue reading Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5.0

Veeam Releases Backup & Replication v6 Data Protection Software

Veeam Continues Innovation in Areas of Scalability, Replication and 1-Click File Restore, in Addition to Previously Announced Multi-Hypervisor Support Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today unveiled major enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication™ v6. With this new release, Veeam becomes the first… Continue reading Veeam Releases Backup & Replication v6 Data Protection Software

VMware Unveils vSphere 5 and Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite

Major Platform and Product Upgrades Strengthen Infrastructure Foundation for the Cloud Computing Era SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,:  At a live event today, VMware CEO Paul Maritz unveiled VMware vSphere® 5 and a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies built to help customers transform IT to drive greater efficiency of existing investments and improve operational agility. With… Continue reading VMware Unveils vSphere 5 and Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite

HDS Accelerates Cloud Deployments With Support for VMware vSphere 5

VMware vSphere Storage Integration with Hitachi VSP and Hitachi AMS Optimizes IT Infrastructure and Accelerates Private and Public Cloud Deployments SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced integration with the new VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud infrastructure suite to help customers optimize and scale their IT… Continue reading HDS Accelerates Cloud Deployments With Support for VMware vSphere 5

How to Upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1

Its been almost 3 months since VMware released an update for its vSphere 4 product. I’ve began upgrading my lab and clients and wanted to share this little how to guide to help you upgrade as well. So let us begin and prepare the host for an upgrade: vMotion all virtual machines from the host… Continue reading How to Upgrade from ESX/ESXi 4.1 to ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 1

Leibniz-Institut DSMZ Adopts ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation

ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, today announced that Leibniz-Institut Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ) has adopted vSMP Foundation. vSMP Foundation delivers an effective alternative to proprietary, costly symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system, aggregating the power of multiple commodity x86 servers into one larger virtual SMP. “DSMZ did not… Continue reading Leibniz-Institut DSMZ Adopts ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation

Accelio Software to free VMware users from I/O bottlenecks

IO Turbine, Inc. today announced Accelio software, the first product to intelligently use SSD/Flash on the compute server to solve I/O bottleneck problems in VMware environments. When installed on VMware servers, Accelio transparently identifies the highest priority data and offloads IOPS from primary storage to Flash, delivering performance directly to designated virtual machines. Accelio eliminates… Continue reading Accelio Software to free VMware users from I/O bottlenecks