VMware: Defrag or Not? Dave Lewis sent in a question, “There is such a quandary about disk fragmentation in the VMware environment. One says defrag and another says never. Who's right? This has been a hard subject to track and define.” I’m going to debunk [...]
It was a bad day for Steve Bettoni, Tech Support and IT Procurement Officer of Stockport College. Steve is responsible for the infrastructure that supports the college's enrollment apps, SAP, and Exchange, so you can imagine his level of anxiety on enrollment day—the busiest day for [...]
Coming Soon: V-locity 3.0 (virtual platform optimizer) has some fantastic new features in it we're sure you’ll like, including: +Full Support for ESXi Server (in addition to existing support for ESX and Hyper-V) +Reduced installation effort for ESX Servers (no installation on Host) +New CogniSAN technology [...]
I had a test run here internally in order to make a point about what does, or more specifically "does not", happen when you VMotion/SVMotion a Windows Guest OS (GOS). We wanted to demonstrate that, while VMware is copying the VM to another host/storage, it does nothing about the [...]
As a long term VMware Premier Technology Alliance Partner, we're excited to now announce that V-locity has, after passing stringent testing, been certified by VMware as VMware Ready. V-locity is the first and only certified solution for virtual disk I/O optimization. You can see the product listed [...]
We have a new update available for V-locity 2.0 users. Here is a list of fixes and features we added: Fixed a communication error message in the UI. Fixed a problem with VMware host service start. Fixed a synchronization problem in environments with a very large [...]
Here is a cool success story I thought I'd share: "We find Diskeeper to be vital and we use it for our virtual servers (VMware) as well. We redirect our user desktops and My Documents folders to network shares and have found the response times [...]