Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

So as a poor man's backup for our VM's, I have a scheduled task that robocopies some of our VM's to a separate share. These are VMware Server 1.06 VM's.<BR><BR>I know Robocopy normally does delta ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

Continuing where I left off on during a previous article on using the Hyper-V PowerShell module, we will go from viewing our virtual infrastructure and gathering information about various parts of it ...

If you are dealing with various virtual machines, it is essential to give all of them a correct name. But if you have not done that when creating the machine, you can rename them as well. However, do ...

September 11, 2018 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google There are plenty of reasons to run a virtual machine. The first, and most compelling, is that you want to ...

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...

If you need to create and configure VMs on a regular basis, using Windows PowerShell to do so can speed up the process. Whether you need to test new or standardized server setups, Hyper-V gives you an ...

I just read a press release that indicates that the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has accepted a new format for portable virtual machine files that was submitted by Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft ...