One of the things I like about being in the IT industry is the sense of community. And as both VMware and virtualization in general continue to expand in popularity, the virtualization community ...

Storage vMotion is often derided as an unnecessary feature you'll never need -- don't believe that for a second An enormous chunk of the money we spend on IT infrastructure goes to avoiding downtime — ...

Converting systems with large amounts of storage has always been a tricky task. Frequently, there are limited amounts of quiet time to convert these systems. This can be made even more difficult when ...

Eric Siebert is an IT industry veteran, speaker, author, blogger and VMware expert with more than 25 years of experience. VMware vSphere ESXi’s vMotion feature has proved to be one of the most ...

The defining feature that elevated VMware from being just about server consolidation to encompassing the realm of business continuity was vMotion. With vMotion, no longer did a datacenter need to ...

Well, if by that you mean that the affected VMs power on another physical host (through VMWare HA) if their current host fails, then sure. But VMotion isn't for that. It's for moving live VMs from one ...

The newest release of VMware, announced this week, includes a data migration capability that users have wanted for years, one that analysts say should prompt storage vendors to change the way they ...

Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMware’s VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart as 125 miles. Cisco and VMware created some buzz at the VMworld show in San Francisco ...

VMware and Cisco have announced support for a solution that allows for virtualised applications to be shared over a network up to 200 kilometres apart. Described as 'Long Distance VMotion', the ...

StorMagic's new SvSAN allows the deployment of a high-availability, shared storage solution in VMware ESX virtual server infrastructures, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the Eden ...

Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform from Dell/Equalogic to Nutanix. The migration not only simplifies IT, but also ...