I just noticed that VMware also updated the Remote CLI, which was heavily criticized when it first came out because of the lack of commands. Now it contains almost every single command out there. And there’s a great PDF file about all the commands and the options. I guess the Remote CLI matured, I was wondering what the benefits were [...]

VMware’s CEO Paul Maritz just announced that in the near future ESXi will be available for free, that’s right you can just download it. Support is optional and sold separately. ESXi will become available for free over the next couple of weeks. Why is VMware doing this? Well I think because competition is growing and the hypervisor isn’t what the [...]

Dell announced yesterday that ESXi will cost only $99. (source: virtualization.info) Citrix Xenserver will cost you $299. I’m really curious how HP, IBM and Fujitsu are going to respond to this. And what is Microsoft going to do with this very competitive pricing. Anyway, what ever happens Dell and VMware just woke everybody up and the customers are definitely the [...]

Scott’s post pointed me out to the follow up of the VMotion vs Quick Migration post a week ago. I’ve already blogged about the previous articles so here my thoughts on the new one. I guess the most important part of Jeff’s post is this: We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently have Live Migration [...]