Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

In a few circles in the virtualization community, some experts recommend stepping down the number of ports for virtual switches (vSwitch) in VMware vSphere, as well as VI3 installations. This was also ...

With vSphere and VI3, VMware virtualization environments can hit some very lofty consolidation ratios. Consolidation ratios of 30, 40 or 50 or more VMs per host are not at all out of reach today with ...

When we talk about server virtualization, we often mention the resources behind the technology, such as the memory, CPU, and disk. We do so because at least one of these resources will ultimately ...