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Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 7.0 – New Recommendations and Remediations!
December 18, 2016 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEWhether it’s a small business or the largest enterprise, server virtualization has become the norm. New servers are “virtual first” and even the most critical physical servers are now being virtualized. Virtual machines running on today’s virtual infrastructures are now … Read More
Exclusive Video: Exploring the Guts of the Nutanix Architecture
February 12, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSERecently, during ActualTech Media’s first Road Show, David Davis and I had the opportunity to meet with a variety of technology companies pioneering new ways to do IT. Over the past couple of years, Nutanix has demonstrated to the market … Read More
Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform: Video Interviews with @ROIdude and @MSundling
November 25, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIEWinner of numerous innovation awards, the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is gaining in popularity. To learn more, I conducting two video interviews with Nutanix experts (and well known virtualization experts) – Steve Kaplan (@ROIDude) and Mattias Sundling (@MSundling) while at … Read More
Review: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager 6.0
October 31, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSEFor all intents and purposes, the hypervisor has become the bare metal of the data center. When administrators make decisions as to how to support workloads, they are planning ways to carve resources from the overall virtual environment. Rarely are … Read More
vSmackdown! vSphere 5.1 vs. Hyper-V 2012
August 15, 2013 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE 6Twenty years ago, the fight was Novell vs. Microsoft as Microsoft’s upstart Windows NT server operating system decimated Novell’s handsome share of the server market. Ten years ago, the war shifted to the desktop where debates raged over whether Apple … Read More
vSphere Metrics Watch: Three Key Processor Metrics
May 14, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSEThe compute tier is responsible for executing operations and supports running the code that provides an environment for the virtual machines. The compute layer is made up of servers, each two one or more processors and with each of those processors … Read More