LinuxVSM: Keeping Up with VMware

When I started the LinuxVSM Project, I started it to help myself—to solve a problem caused by data faults and the long tail between updates. Now, with version 5, LinuxVSM has grown steadily. It is no longer a tool just for myself, but also for others. It even has folks verifying it to other operating …

Highlights and Guidance from VMware Fourth-Quarter Financial Results

The VMware fourth-quarter financial results were released at the beginning of March 2018. I’d like to share some of its highlights and offer some insight on what these results might indicate for the future. Let’s start out with the facts and figures from the conference call and throw in the future guidance that VMware has …

VMware’s Roadmap, Hybrid, Is the Future

It has been almost five years since VMware laid out its vision based on the ideology behind the software-defined data center (SDDC). This announcement came during one of the keynote addresses during the VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco, California. Since that time, VMware has been working diligently to make its vision a reality while helping to shape the definition of what a twenty-first-century data center is and will be moving forward.

vSphere Upgrade Saga: Linux VMware Software Manager (VSM)

In my GitHub repository is LinuxVSM, a port of the VMware Software Manager to Linux. The reasons for the port were many, but the main one was that I used Linux as my repository of ISO and other images from VMware. So, I wanted a tool I could use on Linux and not depend on …

VMware on Azure; It Is Not Horizon

Microsoft is releasing a new free tool called Microsoft Azure Migrate, which will aid VMware customers in moving their applications to Azure. Yes, that is correct: VMware on Azure! To be fair, this is not the biggest news. The announcement appears in its entirety here, and the relevant section is pulled out below: Host VMware infrastructure …