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The VMware vSphere Licensing Advisor allows users with vSphere 4.1, vSphere 4.0 and Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 environments to calculate and understand their vRAM usage and vRAM capacity as if they upgraded to vSphere 5.0. Starting with vSphere 5.0, the vSphere licensing model will evolve from per processor with physical restrictions …
The below slidedeck contains the new vSphere 5.0 features for the following topics: Licensing, Packaging & Pricing Platform ESXCLI Interface Image Builder & Auto Deploy vCenter Server vMotion, DRS/DPM High Availability Networking Storage VMware Data Recovery 2.0 Site Recovery Manager 5.0
Tom Arentsen wrote some nice step-by-step articles about the PXE manager for vCenter fling http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-i/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-ii/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-iii/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-iv/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-v/ http://blog.arentcs.com/pxe-manager-part-vi/
Scratch partition When you install ESXi, a scratch partition is automatically created when local disks are used and at least 5GB of free diskspace is available for ESXi to install on. This “scratch partition” is used for storing vm-support dumps log files userworld swapfiles (if enabled). When using Boot-from-SAN or …
To assist you in navigating your issue to the right solution, VMware created a number of interactive maps of the most common problems users are seeing, and what articles can help you solve those issues. Make sure to use version 9 or later of Adobe Reader to open these. …
Tolly published a comparison report between VMware View 4.6 and Citrix Xendesktop 5 Platinum. Download the report here
Check the compliance of your IT infrastructure against specific standards and best practices that are applicable for the environment. The Compliance Checker is a free, downloadable, fully-functional product for checking compliance of your environment to help you ensure that it remains secure and compliant. Download here