Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts

• What vSphere API helps accelerate storage operations?

  VMware provides an API that can perform certain storage tasks within an array to reduce I/O activity and keep traffic jams to a minimum.  Continue Reading

• Can vCloud Connector manage vCloud Air?

  VMware touts its hybrid cloud offering, vCloud Air, as a seamless way for administrators to move workloads from their vSphere infrastructure to the cloud when demand exceeds capacity.  Continue Reading

• VMware vCloud Air expanding its cloud offerings

  Despite its relative newness to the market, VMware's public cloud infrastructure offering could appeal to shops already using the company's vSphere server virtualization platform.  Continue Reading

• VMware touts ease of elasticity through vCloud Air

  VMware claims vCloud Air has an advantage over competitor public-cloud providers by giving administrators a familiar vSphere framework for bouncing workloads to the cloud and back again.  Continue Reading

• Is vCloud Air a better deal than Azure, AWS?

  Attempting to compare costs of similar services from different cloud computing providers can be frustrating, but there are ways to determine which works best for your needs.  Continue Reading

• Is vCenter Operations Manager good for storage analysis?

  There are many infrastructure management tools on the market to check the health and speed of your storage, but there's a free tool that can do the job.  Continue Reading

• Is VMware Integrated OpenStack just a development tool?

  VMware is touting its OpenStack offering as a way to ease the deployment and operations in the open-source cloud environment.  Continue Reading

• Key advantages to a virtualized server environment

  An infrastructure architect details his journey to increasing the number of virtualized servers in his UNIX environment.  Continue Reading

• Is thick provisioning better than thin?

  There's some doubt about whether there is an advantage to using thin provisioning over thick when setting up virtualized storage; our expert weighs in.  Continue Reading

• What licensing is required to use vCloud Air?

  Potential users of VMware's vCloud Air offering may not know what type of tools they need to manage the hybrid cloud offering.  Continue Reading

• What's required to run Cisco ACI, VMware NSX?

  Cisco and VMware offer competing products to bring virtualization to the networking world, and each has a different way to implement the technology.  Continue Reading

• How secure is VMware NSX?

  Using a network virtualization product such as VMware NSX can help administrators who want to be sure data won't leak from VMs.  Continue Reading

• What are some of the perks promised by VMware NSX?

  VMware's network virtualization offering promises to speed up tasks that traditionally have slowed an enterprise from responding to immediate needs.  Continue Reading

• VMware NSX and Cisco ACI: Two tacks to network virtualization

  Virtualization has moved into the networking realm with competing offerings from VMware and Cisco that differ in their approach.  Continue Reading

• Can VMware's SRM do a failback?

  VMware says Site Recovery Manager does failbacks and failovers, but one SRM expert says it's not quite the case.  Continue Reading