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Use affinity and anti-affinity rules to guide VM behavior

Affinity rules define the relationships between VMs and hosts. You can create them in DRS, and then use them to improve failover and optimize VM performance.

By Allyson Larcom • Aug. 23, 2019

Iran says it’s building an AI supercomputer, despite sanctions

In a tweet, Iran said it is building a new supercomputer. Other nations are doing the same because high performance computing platforms lend themselves to AI development.

By Patrick Thibodeau • Aug. 23, 2019

Design vSphere clusters with consistency in mind

You can reduce the chances of poor performance and data loss with a solid vSphere cluster design, one that keeps networking and configuration consistency in mind.

By Alastair Cooke • Aug. 22, 2019

IBM Power chip instruction set now open source

IBM opened up its Power server Instruction Set Architecture allowing the open source community to develop more innovative hardware components for IBM's Power servers.

By Ed Scannell • Aug. 21, 2019

Big Switch updates its Cloud-First Networking portfolio

Big Switch Networks' new products and features aim to help solve issues such as lack of operational consistency, visibility and management in hybrid environments, and shadow IT.

By Ha Ta • Aug. 21, 2019

With Packer, VM template creation is easy

Templates are the quickest, easiest way to deploy VMs in vSphere. You can use a free tool such as Packer and a builder such as vmware-iso to automate the creation of VM templates.

By Dan Franciscus • Aug. 20, 2019

What to expect in the next 10 years of VMworld’s future

The future looks bright for VMworld. Experts Brian Kirsch, Alastair Cooke and Rob Bastiaansen discuss what they hope to see from the VMware conference over the next decade.

By Allyson Larcom • Aug. 20, 2019

3 elements to consider for a hybrid cloud deployment

Hybrid cloud uptake is increasing, as organizations demand greater infrastructure freedom across on- and off-premises environments and more control over the application layer.

By Scott Sinclair • Aug. 16, 2019

How to choose hyper-converged backup for data protection

Data protection is essential for any hyper-converged infrastructure. How you back up data -- natively, agentless or using agents -- depends on your environment and other factors.

By Scott Lowe • Aug. 15, 2019

How composable disaggregated infrastructure works

Familiarize yourself with how composable infrastructure works, core characteristics and benefits, and what enterprises hope to gain from this infrastructure-as-code delivery model.

By James Alan Miller • Aug. 14, 2019

How to get out of a bad colocation contract

Renegotiation, legal action and cancellation are all options if your colocation service agreement isn't up to par. But each option requires research to avoid big fees or downtime.

By Clive Longbottom • Aug. 14, 2019

5 steps to include on your software update checklist

Training, testing and automation are all essential components to software updates. Implementing these concepts makes version maintenance a less herculean task.

By Julia Borgini • Aug. 13, 2019

Scale Computing HC3 gaining an enterprise foothold, CEO says

Scale Computing founder and CEO Jeff Ready claims demand for HC3 is pulling the vendor into more enterprise use cases as edge-created data prompts companies to consolidate IT.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 13, 2019

Features of vSAN that improve storage and security

You can combine vSAN with an HCI appliance to streamline operations, and use its many features -- such as ReadyNodes and Performance Diagnostics -- to improve storage and security.

By Allyson Larcom • Aug. 13, 2019

Cray exascale computer to modernize aging nuclear weapon stockpile

The U.S. is buying an exascale system from Cray Inc., its third from the company which is now being acquired by HPE. The $600 million system will be used in nuclear weapons development.

By Patrick Thibodeau • Aug. 13, 2019

The future of VMware and Kubernetes integrations

Kubernetes has become the most popular platform for managing containers. VMware might have a few opportunities to cash in on that, including vSphere-integrated Kubernetes.

By Alastair Cooke • Aug. 12, 2019

Composable architecture extends the reach of disaggregation

In composable architecture, IT components are broken apart and reassembled for specific applications. They can provide more flexibility than converged or hyper-converged systems.

By Garry Kranz • Aug. 12, 2019

An overview of VMware’s UEM market involvement

Despite a slow start, the UEM market is on the rise. VMware offers Workspace ONE and forges deals with Sprint, Dell and Honeywell in the hopes of increasing UEM adoption.

By Paul Korzeniowski • Aug. 12, 2019

83 useful Linux commands

Enterprise administrators and managers who use this guide of essential Linux commands, utilities and tools will find ways to manage files, get process status updates and more.

By Jessica Lulka • Aug. 12, 2019

Larger, expandable HCI nodes bring big infrastructure benefits

Discover why a larger node strategy enables enterprises to better consolidate workloads in a hyper-converged infrastructure environment while reducing complexity and cost.

By George Crump • Aug. 8, 2019

When converged and hyper-converged -- and cloud -- converge

Price, ease of management and use cases should determine if you use hyper-converged, converged infrastructure or on-premises public cloud stacks. There are differences, however.

By Dave Raffo • Aug. 8, 2019

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 tailored for hybrid, multi-clouds

Red Hat released RHEL version 7.7 with features that make it easier to marry its legacy systems with the latest cloud-native applications, while urging users to move to RHEL 8.

By Ed Scannell • Aug. 8, 2019

Expand your edge data center vocabulary

Data, devices and distributed computing are all important parts of edge setups. Learn about edge computing components and how you might see them in your organization.

By Jessica Lulka • Aug. 7, 2019

NSX-T 2.4 could surpass NSX-V as VMware’s primary SDN platform

VMware NSX-T now includes High Availability, a simplified UI and firewall updates. If it can provide your data center the same functionality as NSX-V, consider making the switch.

By Rob Bastiaansen • Aug. 6, 2019

Design a VMware environment with CPUs, storage in mind

A solid infrastructure is critical to smooth operations in the data center. Admins designing a VMware environment should think about CPUs, storage and reference architectures.

By Brian Kirsch • Aug. 5, 2019