Downloads
December 19, 2014 | admin
Datacenter Control Tools Overview
With datacenter control software in place, virtualization teams can circumvent the alerting and notification process by leveraging powerful analytics that continuously automate service assurance and efficiency maximization. Unlike predictive analytics tools, datacenter control software constantly brokers … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Desktop Virtualization Tools Overview
Desktop virtualization solutions, or VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), run on top of a hypervisor and automate desktop provisioning, connection from thin clients to the appropriate virtual desktop, linked-clone functionality to save on disk space, low-latency desktop … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
What to Look for in a Hypervisor
Server virtualization hypervisors are the platform that everything runs on in today’s enterprise datacenter. Type 1 (bare-metal) hypervisors run directory on your physical server, type 2 (hosted) hypervisors run like an application. Enterprise-grade … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new virtualization downloads section! Here, you’ll find the tools that we’ve hand-picked (and will be personally curating) to help you quickly locate best-of-breed products in categories that we feel are most relevant to administrators. We … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Software-Defined Networking Options Overview
Software-defined networking is also called ‘network virtualization’ provides advanced networking capabilities for virtual infrastructures. While hypervisors provide basic software-defined networking, more advanced software-defined networking solutions offer virtual firewall, virtual routing, VPN connectivity, networking automation, and even … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Virtualization Storage Options Overview
Storage virtualization and software-defined storage solutions take the storage capabilities of a virtual infrastructure to a higher level. Storage virtualization solutions may offer a higher layer of storage abstraction, creating virtual SANs, server side caching and … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Monitoring, Capacity & Performance Tools Overview
With monitoring, capacity and performance tools in place, you’ll be notified of problems when they happen, be able to troubleshoot your virtual infrastructure to find the root cause, analyze capacity utilization, predict capacity bottlenecks … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Virtualization Security Considerations
With more and more virtual machines consolidated on fewer and fewer servers, those servers must be protected. Virtualization poses unique security requirements that must be met with security software designed for virtualization. Security software for virtualization can … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
Automation & Orchestration Options
With hundreds of thousands of virtual machines to manage, automation and orchestration become more critical than ever before. Automation and orchestration solutions can automate the creation of new virtual machines, mass configuration changes, self-provisioning, and automation … Read More
December 4, 2013 | admin
High Availability Solutions Overview
High availability solutions for virtualization offer availability for specific applications, for specific virtual machines, or for an entire virtual infrastructure. High availability solutions are designed to provide maximum availability inside a datacenter or between data centers. … Read More
Killer Infographics: Download Microsoft’s Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster Series
October 16, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
For years, really good people at Microsoft have spent enormous time creating and making available architectural posters for a number of the company’s products. I’ve always really liked them as they provide a really quick, at-a-glance view of what makes … Read More
How to Build a Private Cloud with OpenStack & RackSpace
July 4, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I’ll run through the initial install. The download is free.
They recommend that you deploy this using either three … Read More
Demoing the PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform Beta
July 4, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Flash has become a big topic in the IT world lately especially around virtualization. There are all flash arrays, hybrid flash arrays, auto-tiering within more traditional arrays, and of course server-side flash and SSD. Server-side flash puts the performance gains … Read More
VMware vCenter Log Insight Beta
July 4, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 1
There’s a new log analyzer offered by VMware called vCenter Log Insight. Only the beta is available right now, but they have even released the expected pricing model ($200 per Operating System) so the first release should be right around … Read More
VMware vCloud Connector
June 13, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 4.2Connecting Clouds
VMware vCloud Connector makes hybrid cloud computing easy. Whether you need an internal private cloud, a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud that combines the best of both, vCloud Connector can get you there. Bring your existing applications, … Read More
