Category Archives: vSphere

Managing Your Virtualization Environment

As organizations find their server infrastructures become mostly virtualized and start virtualizing their desktops, they come to realize that vSphere alone is not enough to manage and troubleshoot this environment.  That’s why you see so many ISVs offering solutions in this space, and why VMware has finally jumped into the fray with vCenter Operations.  I’ve been a big fan of vCOps …

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vSphere 5 Desktop Edition

I alluded to this in my previous post, but it seems that no one else has picked up on it yet, so I figured I might as well write up the first post on the subject. People familiar with the VMware View Bundles know about a special license of vSphere that comes as part of …

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VMware vSphere 5

If you hadn’t noticed, VMware announced vSphere 5 on 7/12.  The announcement was well handled and I enjoyed watching the first hour.  The follow-up sessions weren’t working in my browser, so I wasn’t able to attend any of those, but I ended up spending a lot of time on Twitter and VMware’s sites looking into …

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vCenter Tomcat Collisions

I received the following message from a coworker of mine today (Todd Dresser), and thought it was well written and could be of great use to others:   I had an issue where my web services would keep crashing thus creating a ton of dump files (30,000 x 8 KB files) and also a high CPU load.  …

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