With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what do you need to know about it and how do you upgrade to it? Let's find out. With VMware vSphere 4.1 update 1 now generally available, what ...

I don't have any experience with doing a major version upgrade using it, but most people use Update Manager to update their ESX hosts and nothing else. In testing, updating Windows boxes worked, but ...

"VMware vCenter Update Manager Features. vCenter Update Manager 4.1 and its subesquent update releases are the last releases to support scanning and remediation of patches for Windows and Linux guest ...

Besides host profiles, VMware vCenter Update Manager (VUM) has received a shot in the arm to become a more important component of the overall suite (see Figure 2). VUM can now perform upgrades for ...

VMware's latest free yet unsupported plug-in helps with the deployment and customization of large numbers of ESXi systems VMware Lab engineers are at it again. This internal group of VMware developers ...

VMware vSphere 4, the next-generation version of VMware Inc.'s flagship Virtual Infrastructure virtualization product suite, comes with a laundry list of new features and sports a new moniker: "cloud ...

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 ...

Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to its initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. VMware's somewhat quick retraction helped ...

VMware has updated third-party libraries and components used by its vSphere server virtualization platform to integrate security patches released in recent months. The company released vCenter Server ...