In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

The following are best practices in managing your VMM 2008 R2 environment: Use VMM’s P2V function to convert physical computers to virtual machines. Use VMM’s V2V function to convert virtual machines ...

Hard to believe it’s only been a few years since Microsoft launched Hyper-V. Even more amazing is the progress it has made in that short period of time. With the Windows Server 2008 R2 update we’re ...

(1) See virtual machine monitor. (2) A desktop user interface for managing Xen, KVM and QEMU virtual machines. It is used to install and clone VMs and show their current status. Virtual Machine ...

Since its initial release, one of the key missing components of Microsoft's Virtual Server virtualization platform has been the lack of an enterprise class management application. Microsoft is finally ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misidentified the employer of James Bothe, a systems administrator at RackForce Networks Inc. The company’s name has now been corrected. Also, the cost of Virtual ...

According to a recent press release, QLogic Corp. is now working with Microsoft to integrate N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology with Microsoft's virtualization management solution, System ...

Called VMware Lab Manager, the product streamlines the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multimachine software configurations in virtualized environments. It features a self-service interface and ...

With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are.

If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox. Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source. I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox.

It's been pretty clear that virtual machine software was on a trajectory to become just another operating environment function for industry standard systems. The inclusion of Xen in Linux was the ...