We need to do a VMware consolidation down from 4.0 Enterprise to 5.1 Essentials Plus. I have 4 hosts that are going to be retired as part of the migration but I need to get the VMs off of them first.

Then I installed ESXi 5.1 onto a flash drive and... registered the host. OOPS. Like 90% of the available features disappeared thanks to using the free license. For example, I can no longer clone VMs ...

VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack, CRN has learned. In its ...

VMware's vSphere 5 pricing could accelerate the shift toward a mixture of commercial and open source products in the virtualization arena EMC VMware’s vSphere 5 brings new features and performance ...

With the introduction of vSphere 5, VMware created the concept of vRAM pools and added this as a critical component of purchasing a vSphere license. While vSphere is still licensed per CPU socket, now ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Theres been a lot of hoopla made over how will VMware ...