I have a Supermicro system at home that I have used as both an ESXI host (for VM testing) and now as a workstation since I am short a general-purpose machine at home. I am trying to figure out if/what ...

Virtualization is an easy sell: Who wouldn’t want to turn underutilized physical servers into a humming little farm of virtual servers you can spin up or down at the drop of a hat? The dirty little ...

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 ...

If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Virtualization, as the name suggests, involves the creation of a make-believe version of a computer or its constituent resource, like a storage device, server, etc., within a physical computer. The ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

EMC VMware's ESX 3.0 was released a bit more than three years ago. While ESX 2.5 was a solid virtualization platform, ESX 3.0 seemed to push server virtualization into the realm where a lot of small ...

So in Part 1 of 2 of this article on VDI titled “Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Part 1 of 2)” where I covered the Understanding Where VDI Fits in the Enterprise I gave a background ...

An upgrade from VMware ESX to vSphere doesn't have to mean throwing your old hosts away. Here's how to remake them into 'warm sites' EMC VMware’s ESX 3.0 was released a bit more than three years ago.