Double-Take For VMware Infrastructure review
Reviews The wizard then provides a list of VMs and asks which one to replicate. This makes it much easier for administrators working with replicas to avoid confusing the replica with the original while booting or deleting VMs, for example.
[August 28, 2007, 15:33]
VMware ESXi review
Reviews In contrast, ESX Server uses Red Hat Linux to store and load the hypervisor software, and although VMware administrators will rarely touch the Red Hat console, from time to time they may need to do so — for example, to move files used by VMs to...
[October 17, 2008, 10:45]
EsxMigrator review
Reviews VAT), for companies with a large number of ESX Servers and VMs to migrate. EsxMigrator then retrieved a list of VMs that could be migrated from the ESX 2.x servers, and discovered details about the VI3 server that would be needed for migrations...
[November 7, 2006, 11:15]
Vizioncore EsxEssentials review
Reviews Offering the promise of replicating VMs to other ESX Server systems, esxReplicator 2.0 could be used as the basis of a disaster recovery or business continuity plan. VMs can be organised into folders with VirtualCenter, and esxRanger Pro can select...
[August 21, 2007, 12:52]
VirtualCenter For VMware Server review
Reviews VMware Server is free of charge and provides a solid platform for running VMs on Windows and Linux servers, but its management console is limited to basic functions and to working with only one VMware Server system at a time.
[June 29, 2007, 16:00]
VCharter Pro review
Reviews Having done this, we occasionally received alerts reporting that one of the VMs was actively using 88 percent of its memory, so we raised the RAM allocation to that VM. By default, availability was defined as the state of the component VMs: if they...
[July 3, 2008, 9:11]
Hyper-V review
Reviews With ESX Server, the VMware hypervisor, rather than the console operating system, is clearly managing the CPUs and RAM used by the VMs. Before adding any VMs, we wanted to make a few changes to the basic Hyper-V configuration.
[August 18, 2008, 10:38]
Enabling VMware ESX Server VLAN Network Configurations For The Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server
White Papers Virtualization allows for the creation of multiple virtual machines (VMs) that can run simultaneously on a single physical server. These VMs can communicate among each other and with other physical systems through virtual switches.
[June 7, 2006, 1:00]
Data Protection And Application Availability For Your VMware Environment With Veritas NetBackup And Cluster Server For VMware ESX
White Papers Veritas Cluster Server for VMware is a comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution for the ESX platform, providing availability for the underlying server, virtual machines and applications running within VMs.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
VMware VMotion Performance On The Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server
White Papers ESX was configured on each blade so that the ESX Service Console and the VMotion traffic use one NIC and the second NIC is used for the network traffic of the VMs running on the blades. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact on typical...
[June 5, 2007, 1:00]
Best Practices For Migrating To VMware Infrastructure 3 On Dell PowerEdge Servers
White Papers One of the key advantages of server virtualization is the portability of the Virtual Machines (VMs) from one physical server to another. VMware ESX Server is a feature and market leader in server virtualization.
[June 5, 2007, 1:00]
Benchmarking Servers Using Virtual Machines
White Papers Virtualization software is often used in enterprise on server machines to run Virtual Machines (VMs), each running a distinct server.is has many benefits including flexibility and lower hardware cost.is paper presents the results from conducting a...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
XenServer 5 review
Reviews From the bundled XenCenter console, VMs can be grouped and tagged using searchable metadata to make it easier to manage large populations. Host servers can have up to 32 processors and 128GB of memory, with the guest VMs configured with up to eight...
[November 18, 2008, 10:40]
Microsoft's Hyper-V: Why All The Fuss? review
Reviews This is made possible because an ordinary operating system has to do a lot of other work besides looking after guest VMs. In Microsoft's case that means Windows Server 2003, the Virtual Server software sharing out the server's processors, memory...
[February 27, 2008, 9:14]
Windows Server 2008: Preview, Part 2 review
Reviews The company has also back-pedalled on plans to support dynamic allocation of VM resources and live migration of active VMs from one host to another — key features in VMWare’s market-leading alternative.
[July 16, 2007, 11:33]
VMware Infrastructure 3 review
Reviews We found this process remarkably straightforward, with tools to both define new VMs from scratch and turn existing instances -- such as working file and print servers, Web servers and so on -- into templates that can then be used to automate the...
[September 6, 2006, 12:00]
