The "Is VMware violating the GPL" question is circulating again (Matt Asay follows up his own post here) so I thought it would be useful to dust off an Illuminata Perspectives that I wrote when this ...

It becomes incredibly difficult with multiple layers of virtualization to sometimes know what is what. One particular area where this becomes a challenge is determining MAC addresses of the ESXi ...

I'm setting up our vSphere test environment, and I can't for the life of me find out what 'management traffic' is when I am configuring a VMkernel port. It doesn't appear to be vCenter Server, vSphere ...

One of the most important parts of VMware's vSphere offering is the collective migration technology, VMotion. In the current landscape, this includes migrating VMs from one host to another as well as ...