I've got 4 Dell R610's in a vSphere 4.1 Enterprise+ cluster. Each box has 96 GB of RAM (12 X 8 GB). I need to increase the total RAM in the cluster, the easiest way would be go from 8 GB sticks to 16 ...

Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

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 ...

Monitoring virtual servers for availability, performance, health, and workload capacity has never been easy, but Operations Manager goes a long way toward that goal One of the downsides to ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fungible Inc., the dynamic composable infrastructure company, today announced a new release of Fungible Storage Cluster ® (FSC) 4.1, providing support for VMware ...

So the VMWare team at my work tends to be very elusive when it comes to answering questions abouts potential failure points. You have to ask very directed questions. My group internally is trying to ...

VMware's VSAN 1.0 combines easy setup and management with high availability and high performance -- and freedom from traditional storage systems Convergence of compute and storage is all the rage in ...

Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went ...