So some time ago I was given a mandate to retire a bunch of old hardware and consolidate. This was/is still a wonderful idea, as under new management, all of a sudden there was an IT budget for the ...

In a virtual desktop environment, such as VMware's View, it behooves an administrator to be proactive in identifying potential problems before they become a major issues for a company's virtual ...

Is anyone using munin, nagios, cacti or other open platform to monitor their ESX Host? Specifically I'm curious about methods to get all the information in esxtop into munin and perhaps doing some ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at VMworld, VMware’s event focused on enabling the digital enterprise, LogicMonitor® announced that it has hundreds of customers monitoring VMware software with its ...

BALTIMORE—The Electronic Security Expo this year will feature a new, cutting-edge, half-day education program, entitled the ESX Next Generation Monitoring Boot Camp, on Monday, June 22, from 1 to 5 ...

There are many who think that VMware vSphere can only be monitored with a vSphere-specific monitoring tool. The truth is that the same tool most organizations already have, Microsoft System Center ...

VMware does not allow you to use more than one monitor for any guest operating system. However, you can bypass this default setting and use the dual monitor with VMware virtual machine. Irrespective ...

Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to its initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. VMware's somewhat quick retraction helped ...