So it’s back to business again after a couple of crazy days during VMworld. All the blogs can return to their normal “technical” writing.
VMware just released a whole bunch of patches for ESX(i) 3.5, so for you SysAdmins it’s also back to work again. You can find them here.
There’s also a new release for VMware’s [...]

Marathon seems to be afraid of VMware’s Fault Tolerance:
Marathon’s team at VMworld got to sit in on the VMworld session Tuesday morning that covered VMware’s newly announced technology for fault tolerant VMs. While not bad for FT rookies, from what we saw, it’s a less than perfect solution for a lot companies that want to [...]

VMware just dropped the news that the future version of VCB will not be an installable anymore. VCB will be an API. This will save you that additional (proxy) host that it will normally cost you. This probably also means that software vendors can take the full advantage of their own unique abilities like deduplication, [...]

I was just catching up and read this blog from Scott about managing ESXin a COS-less environment. The most interesting part of this blog is the following:
The subject of deployment is a key issue when we think about losing the Service Console. One approach to handling these issues is deploying physical machines; another would be [...]

There are a couple of great articles out there which are definitely worth reading:

Colin McNamara - Cisco releases Nexus 1000v virtual switch for VMware
Scott Lowe - BC2621: Fault-Tolerant VMs in VI: Operations and Best Practices (live blogging)
Scott Lowe - TA2668: VMware ESX Architectural Directions (live blogging)
Rich Brambley - TA3807: VirtualCenter Directions (live blogging)

But we can’t say that they don’t have any humor:

This is what MS is handing out at VMworld….

Chad just wrote an amazing article about what vStorage actually is. Besure to read this one!
vStorage has been something that VMware and EMC have been working together on for a long time, in fact, before it was called vStorage (which was recent) - it used to be called VMAS a name only engineers would like.  [...]

So there’s a new term floating around “vCenter”. So what is vCenter?
vCenter provides comprehensive management of applications and infrastructure in this flexible, fluid environment and integrates with leading systems management vendors for seamless, end to end datacenter management.
So as spectacular as this may sound, it just VirtualCenter renamed. Although not every section of the VMware [...]