vSphere 5 Archives - ESX Virtualization

Highest-Level Security Certification for vSphere 5

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:22:58 +0000

Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) for VMware vSphere 5 VMware vSphere 5 has been awarded with an advanced security certification. VMware has worked with Corsec Security, Inc., and CGI in order to achieve this certification. CGI Group has got an acredited lab which was necessary to complete the evaluation. Common Criteria does […]

Read the full post Highest-Level Security Certification for vSphere 5 at ESX Virtualization.

VMware Private Cloud Computing- a new book

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:00:59 +0000

New book in preorder at Amazon. This new book written by Simon Gallagher, who is a creator of vTARDIS system. vTARDIS is basically a Single -box-server running nested ESXi hypervisors. The goal of such configuration is learning. Learning vSphere infrastructure, learning networking when you're on a budget. Simon got awarded last year at VMworld Europe […]

Read the full post VMware Private Cloud Computing- a new book at ESX Virtualization.

vSphere 5 – Clean ESXi 5.0 Installation video from my lab

Vladan SEGET — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:05:39 +0000

My turn to show an installation of ESXi 5.0 in my lab. In this video I'm showing clean installation of ESXi 5.0 in one whitebox from my lab. I do a clean installation of ESXi 5.0 (beta release), so I'm whipping my previous ESXi 4.1 from that USB stick. I do it in purpose just […]

Read the full post vSphere 5 – Clean ESXi 5.0 Installation video from my lab at ESX Virtualization.

ESXi 5.0 vRAM entitlement changes

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:30:56 +0000

VMware vSphere 5.0 vRAM entitlement has changed. The new vRAM entitlement introduced few weeks ago was really not popular and this community thread which has nearly 100 pages is the witness. But it's over now. The vRAM entitlement went up considerably (it's been doubled in some cases) and even the small percentage of customers which […]

Read the full post ESXi 5.0 vRAM entitlement changes at ESX Virtualization.

vSphere License validator Demo video

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:53:01 +0000

vSphere Licensing Advisor. This blog post has been updated: With the recent licensing policy changes at VMware, the validation process of vRAM entitlements can be verified through a PowerCLI script. The recent policy changes lifted some limitations to CPU and CPU cores, but introduced new vRAM pool licensing the vRAM allocated to running VMs. The […]

Read the full post vSphere License validator Demo video at ESX Virtualization.

vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite introduced

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:15:59 +0000

The bar was raised today to level 5 with new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. Of course there is many new features introduced which you might read on all the other blog post articles, but I will choose some of them which is interesting in my point of view. Some of the features for the SMB market […]

Read the full post vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure Suite introduced at ESX Virtualization.