So, vSphere Storage DRS is suppose to require Enterprise Plus licenses, but we only have Enterprise and have no problems creating datastore clusters and enabling Storage DRS on them. I am beginning to ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...

SAN FRANCISCO—VMware is still the big kahuna in virtualization, and the company is hosting its annual VMworld conference this week to show off the latest shiny bits of software that businesses can buy ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

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VMware announced enhancements last week to its VMware vSphere, new versions of vShield 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vCloud Director and a new vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 now ...

The key to efficiently running and managing a virtualized or cloud environment is the ability to easily access and manage the storage on which such environments run. That becomes evident when walking ...

Recognizing that some customers have stalled along the road to adopting virtualization, VMware is coming around with some seriously powerful jumper cables. With Tuesday's unveiling of vSphere 5, ...