So some time ago I was given a mandate to retire a bunch of old hardware and consolidate. This was/is still a wonderful idea, as under new management, all of a sudden there was an IT budget for the ...

An idea being floated around at the office is to create a server lab for virtualization, to experiment with various hypervisors (Xen, ESX, HyperV, SunxVM). I've been doing some work on virtualization, ...

In the course of an ESXi (or ESX) server's lifecycle, you may find that you need to add hardware internally to the server. Adding RAM or processors is not that big of a deal (of course you would want ...

As the virtualization wave washes over datacenter after datacenter, it almost seems that small businesses have been left high and dry. And with licenses for enterprise-grade server virtualization ...

As the virtualization wave washes over datacenter after datacenter, it almost seems that small businesses have been left high and dry. And with licenses for enterprise-grade server virtualization ...

VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

A fundamental part of protecting IT is ensuring that the services provided by virtual machines are resilient and robust at all levels of the compute stack, from hardware through to the application.