In a few circles in the virtualization community, some experts recommend stepping down the number of ports for virtual switches (vSwitch) in VMware vSphere, as well as VI3 installations. This was also ...

Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

If you are running a virtual vCenter server, do you keep it on a standard vSwitch, or have you moved it into a vDistributed Switch? I read some posts about VMware not supporting running a virtual ...

Many of the vSphere 5 features seem to gravitate around storage, but there are scores of other features that can help you as you work daily in the the vSphere environment. One of those features, multi ...

The arrival of Software Defined Networking (SDN), which is often talked about as a game changing technology, is pitting two industry kingpins and former allies against each other: Cisco and VMware.