Category Archives: Virtualization Management

vSphere 5 – Licensing Changes and Enhancements

Last week featured the big announcement regarding vSphere 5 and VMware’s cloud offerings. A lot of discussion has been prompted by VMware’s new vRAM-based licensing model. One of the better articles on the new vSphere licensing can be found here … Continue reading

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Visit eG Innovations at the Desktop Transformation Pavilion at Citrix Synergy 2011

Citrix Synergy is next week in San Francisco. If you are going to be at the show,visit at at booth #526. This year, we are also going to be at the Desktop Transformation pavilion for Citrix Ready partners at booth … Continue reading

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Providing 360 Degree Visibility of Virtual Machines – Inside and Outside

If you are responsible for a virtual infrastructure, you’re probably already aware that metrics like CPU ready time, balloon memory, IOPS, etc. are important indicators of how the virtual infrastructure is performing. These metrics together provide what we refer to … Continue reading

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Blame it on Virtualization!

Over the last month, we’ve seen two different cases where applications were moved to a virtualization platform and in both cases, a few days after the migration, the applications had problems. The move to virtualization was immediately blamed for the … Continue reading

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Management Technologies will Play a Central Role in Fulfilling the Promise of Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technologies

2011 is almost here and it promises to be an exciting and challenging year!  Here are my top 10 predictions in the monitoring and management space for 2011. Virtualization and cloud computing have garnered a lot of attention recently. While … Continue reading

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Five Myths of Virtualization Management

The virtualization market has seen a dramatic growth in the last few years. Many recent industry surveys have pointed that a majority of enterprises are over 30% virtualized. Monitoring and management has become crucial as virtualization further penetrates the enterprise. … Continue reading

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Why Does Your Monitoring System Need to be Virtualization-Aware?

You have management software that you’ve used for your Linux or Windows servers. Can’t you just deploy a Linux agent and monitor a VMware vSphere/ESX server, or a Windows agent to monitor a Microsoft Hyper-V server? This is a very … Continue reading

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How eG Enterprise value-adds to Citrix XenDesktop

Lots of announcements from Citrix at Citrix Synergy in Berlin yesterday. One of the most significant ones is Citrix’s announcement of XenDesktop 5 – the latest and greatest in VDI connection broker technology. XenDesktop 5 features a simpler and more … Continue reading

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Is your virtualization management system "VMware Ready"? What you may not know!

A couple of years back, VMware announced a VMware Ready Management certification program for management systems. This rigorous program provides: Simplified management – simplify comprehensive management of virtual data center OS environments and across the enterprise with vCenter-integrated partner solutions Integrated … Continue reading

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After Virtualization, Do I Still Need Monitoring?

Virtualization offers excellent benefits – cost savings, agility, resource sharing, etc. but one thing it does not do is reduce the amount of monitoring you need to do to keep your IT infrastructure working well. Check out why by reading this post. Continue reading

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