I've come to really like the distributed virtual switch feature of VMware's vSphere 4. The vNetwork Distributed Switch, as it is officially called, is a great way to standardize how hosts are ...

In "Fat-Finger Hero," I mentioned how recovering from a bad configuration can be an admin's saving grace. I mentioned how one of the more common areas to get stuck is host networking, and I mentioned ...

I've got a vSphere cluster setup with vCenter as a VM running on the cluster. From what I've read, if I lose the p-host running the vCenter VM, I also lose vMotion, vMotion Storage, DRS, etc until ...

Cisco today said it would offer its virtual switch users technology to get around VMware’s recent elimination of support for third party virtual switches such as Cisco’s Nexus 1000V. VMware in March ...

Cisco is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its virtual switch to Hyper-V next year when Windows Server 8 is released. While Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch already supports VMware ...

VMware has released the latest version of its core virtualisation platform, vSphere 4, claiming it acts as a cloud operating system to the datacentre. The product, the renamed successor to VMware ...

Microsoft's new extensible virtual switch in Hyper-V 3.0 for Windows Server 8 has already been implemented by 5nine, Broadcom, Cisco, inMon and NEC, among others. Implementations by those Microsoft ...