Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts

• 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

• How can I maximize ESXi cluster space in VMware VSAN?

  An administrator wishing to implement the VSAN software-defined storage functionality in vSphere 5.5 can spare a drive for the cause.  Continue Reading

• What's better? An OVF or an OVA file?

  What is an OVA file and how does it compare to an Open Virtualization Format package?  Continue Reading

• Can VMware VSAN offer RAID-like safeguards?

  Administrators using VMware Virtual SAN have a new way to pool storage from servers, but how dependable is this latest technology offering?  Continue Reading

• Can a Horizon 6 Cloud Pod balance View desktops?

  VMware's new end-user computing platform Horizon 6 has several new features, which may close the distance with perennial leader Citrix.  Continue Reading

• How VMware ThinApp differs from a Horizon 6 hosted app

  VMware supports hosted apps in some editions of Horizon 6 to ensure compatibility with certain legacy applications.  Continue Reading