About six months ago, in a previous Virtualization Review article, I provided a solution for converting a VMware virtual disk into a virtual SSD (Solid State Drive) by means of the VMware ESXi command ...

The recent vSphere releases are placing more emphasis on the vSphere Web Client, yet many vSphere administrators have been dragging their feet on the transition. I'll even admit to that -- I had set a ...

Suppose Kubernetes was someone's proprietary, commercial software platform ­­­­­­-- hypothetically speaking, something created internally at a startup software company and then delivered to the data ...

VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery orchestration product that protects virtual machines by duplicating them to a secondary site. This is achieved using storage array-based ...

I have a Windows 2008 server which has just died. It hosted some low-usage IIS sites (some with supporting SQL Server databases), and a few media and file server applications (e.g Logitech Media ...

I have aquired two Dell T110 Servers. Each one of them was equipped with a single Intel® Xeon® X3440 2.53ghz processor and 16GB of 1333mhz RAM. I added 4x Western Digital WD1002FBYS 1TB ...

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 ...

Using Host Profiles with a vSphere Upgrade, even if you do not have an Enterprise Plus license, will save time. If you have to upgrade a VMware VI3 Cluster it may be best to use Host Profiles at least ...