This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

A VMWare official on Friday scoffed at Oracle’s contention that its recent entry into the virtualization market performs better than “the existing leader server virtualization product.” Oracle has not ...

In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. In part two we looked at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...

Recognizing that some customers have stalled along the road to adopting virtualization, VMware is coming around with some seriously powerful jumper cables. With Tuesday's unveiling of vSphere 5, ...

If you want to improve and optimize Hyper-V VM Performance on your Windows computer, go through the tips and tweaks mentioned below. Dynamic Memory lets you add more memory to a virtual machine (VM) ...