This topic has been argued to death across the Internet, but I'd like to get Arsian opinions for my particular situation:<BR><BR>I have two Dell R900 servers and an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. All three ...

Thought I would ask the brain trust here for some pointers on this one because it has me absolutely mind boggled. Here is what I have: A 3 host cluster of IBM x3690 X5 ESXi 4.1U1 Embedded hosts with ...

Of course disaster recovery is important for any datacenter; but it's even better to not have to recover from a disaster. As much as running an enterprise-class datacenter for the fun of it would be a ...

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with ...

Ah, Day Five of my VMware 5.0 training trek is finally here and with it comes HA Clustering, Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), Patch Management and ESXi Installation. VMware's fault tolerance and ...

Back in the day, ESXi was all the craze in the home lab community, as it provided several enterprise-grade virtualization features without forcing users to pay a dime. However, the free version of the ...

As a consultant, I've spent quite a bit of time in front of vSphere clusters. In the last couple of years, I've spent a chunk of that time assessing the health of an environment, as well as the ...

First, let us talk about VMware Workstation Pro. It has the AutoStart feature that allows the machine to start when the Windows host machine starts. Now, you need to open the VMware Workstation, then ...