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VMware Workstation 6 review
Reviews Support for 2-way virtual SMP is another key feature, enabling virtual machines to be run on one or two processors on suitably equipped systems. You also get extensive network modelling facilities including a built-in DHCP server, up to ten virtual...
[June 20, 2007, 9:11]
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 review
Reviews Virtual machines can be arranged by physical host or put into logical groups with an embedded live thumbnail display when a virtual machine is selected; tools alongside allow you to start/stop VMs, create checkpoints (snapshots), save states and...
[February 28, 2008, 11:11]
VMware Workstation 5 review
Reviews These OSs and applications are isolated in secure virtual machines, VMware Workstation mapping the computer's physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, I/O devices and...
[May 10, 2005, 10:50]
VMware Workstation 7 review
Reviews As with other updates to VMware Workstation, one of the good things about version 7 is that you don't have to worry about migrating existing virtual machines or settings when upgrading. Virtual machines can have up to 4 processors or cores and 32GB...
[December 14, 2009, 10:26]
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 review
Reviews We installed a couple of versions of Windows (2000 and XP) and also configured virtual machines running Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The whole process only takes a few minutes, after which you can create and manage...
[June 7, 2006, 13:00]
VMware Workstation 4.5.2 review
Reviews The clever part is that these operating systems and applications are isolated in secure virtual machines that coexist on a single piece of hardware, mapping a system’s physical hardware resources to the virtual machine’s resources, so each virtual...
[November 22, 2004, 15:30]
VMware Infrastructure 3 review
Reviews The Virtual Infrastructure client provides the interface through which you create, manage and monitor virtual machines. It can still be used to host virtual machines running Windows, Linux and other common operating systems; however it is, itself...
[September 6, 2006, 12:00]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss? review
Reviews A hypervisor, on the other hand, can be optimised purely for the task of running virtual machines. The end result is, typically, the ability to host more virtual machines on the same hardware and/or improve their level of performance.
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 review
Reviews Finally it's worth mentioning that the company has plans to release a hybrid implementation that will integrate its new hypervisor and enable workloads to be migrated between containers and virtual machines to suit different demands.
[December 5, 2008, 16:10]
XenServer 5 review
Reviews Virtual machines can now run most versions of Windows or Linux (32-bit or 64-bit in each case) with support for Windows Server 2008 added in the new version along with Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1. The remote Windows XenCenter console has also been...
[November 18, 2008, 10:40]
Bare metal hypervisors: a group test review
Reviews Our objective was to perform a set of (repeatable) tasks on virtual machines running on top of the various hypervisors and measure the performance of these tasks. Within 10 minutes you're ready to start creating virtual machines.
[June 1, 2009, 0:00]
Windows Server 2008: preview, part 2 review
Reviews The principal difference is that, like many virtualisation products, Virtual Server 2005 runs as an application on top of a host operating system, sharing out the physical resources on that host among one or more virtual machines (VMs) running...
[July 16, 2007, 11:33]
Dell PowerEdge 2850 review
Reviews We then configured and ran a variety of Windows and Linux virtual machines under these environments. The PE2850 handled this work with ease, enabling us to run several virtual machines simultaneously and still get respectable test results.
[June 15, 2006, 11:00]
Stratus ftServer 6200 review
Reviews During the resync the virtual machines froze and then automatically resumed from where they left off. We set up two virtual machines running Windows, and configured each to ping an external system. ESX Server administrators wanting to inspect the...
[June 2, 2008, 10:04]
Hosted virtualisation suites: a group test review
Reviews It also has the ability to run virtual machines' execution in the background and drop the viewing window. VirtualBox focuses on one thing — running desktop-focused virtual machines — and does it very well.
[June 22, 2009, 16:40]
Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac 7.0 review
Reviews In fact, you can install multiple versions of Windows (if you have copies) by setting up different virtual machines; you can then choose which virtual machine to start up. First, run the Virtual PC installer, then restart, and install Windows XP...
[November 17, 2004, 8:50]
VMware ESXi review
Reviews Although it makes a solid platform for running virtual machines (VMs), it doesn't provide datacentre automation capabilities such as High Availability (HA) or Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS). The ESXi welcome page has links for downloading...
[October 17, 2008, 10:45]
VMware vSphere 4 review
Reviews Each version enables you to host multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single server, so the free ESXi might be adequate for small organisations and for some test and development environments. The new vStorage Thin Provisioning option allows you to...
[October 27, 2009, 14:30]
Dell PowerEdge R710 review
Reviews Filled with 8GB DIMMs, that gives a total RAM capacity of 144GB, which is more than enough to support large numbers of virtual machines, big corporate databases and other memory-hungry applications. This provides web-based remote console access...
[August 20, 2009, 12:38]
Windows Server 2008 R2: a first look review
Reviews Of course, the headline feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 has to be the new and improved Hyper-V hypervisor with its Live Migration support, whereby virtual machines can be moved from one server to another without having to be shut down.
[July 7, 2009, 16:31]
