Shortly after a new appointment at VMWare, the two companies make an agreement

We wrote some days ago about Microsoft’s “Slog” against VMware. This campaign continues and reaches new heights under a new domain which Microsoft now operates. It’s www.vmwarecostswaytoomuch.com (VMware Costs Too Much). Is this how a publicly-traded company should behave?

A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?"

This tutorial outlines how to upgrade VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0. VMware has recently released its new VM hypervisor product, VMware ESXi 5.0. VMware is replacing its current ESX model with ESXi and the biggest change (between ESX and ESXi) is the architecture.

Redmond has turned up the heat in the virtualization market with the release of its System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007. In introducing the product, Microsoft also pledged to throw in support for Xen and VMware -- the later being a primary competitor in this market. SCVMM provides systems administrators with a management view of virtual and physical servers.

Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.

Charlie Schluting helps admins decide if Xen is a viable alternative to VMWare. Why move away from VMWare? Xen is open source and less expensive. But will it do the job?

Xen made a big splash when it was introduced, and VMWare has long dominated the virtualization space. But Red Hat's KVM promises to leave Xen in the dust, and challenge VMWare. At least that's what Red Hat says will happen.

First you need to download vmware server 2.0.x from vmware website and get the vmware server installation key.