VMware’s fourth quarter beat expectations as the company saw strong demand for its vSphere virtualization platform.
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said in a conference call that in the near future, the company was planning to focus resources on further growth in the data center automation and middleware management areas through both “organic development” and acquisitions.
“We [...]

VMware has just announced that we have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zimbra from Yahoo! Hmmm.. Didn’t I just hear that Oracle just switched to Zimbra?

Many are asking why? According to Zimbra:
"We believe that the shift toward cloud computing and virtualization will continue to change the industry landscape and revolutionize how the [...]

Here is a headline I did not expect to see in the news this morning: "Exclusive: VMware Likely to Buy Zimbra From Yahoo".
One of the divisions that’s been on Yahoo’s auction block since September is Zimbra, an open-source e-mail company Yahoo acquired in September 2007 for $350 million.
According to All Things Digital, Yahoo is [...]

Someone asked me what the impact would be if a VM is installed with the wrong OS type.
My first thought was that this probably would introduce some performance issues, but then it hit me that this would cause the incorrect VMware Tools to get installed in the VM, leading to all sorts of unintended behaviors. [...]

Who is affected:
Customers who are using VMware vSphere ESX 4.0 and are wanting to install update 1, via VMware Update Manager (VUM).
Problem description:
Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 U1 using VUM fails or times out. Rebooting host results in a PSOD and the host has to be re-installed.
Workaround:
Please disable any 3rd party hardware monitoring agents running [...]