Virtual machine density refers to how many virtual machines your virtual infrastructure host servers can maintain, while still performing well themselves and also providing enough compute resources ...

Server virtualization is based on the idea that server hardware has become so powerful in recent years that most workloads do not require a dedicated server. Instead, a number of virtual machines can ...

Although not usually considered a player in utility or grid computing, VMware has quietly and steadily built up a leadership position in virtual machine technology--software that allows customers to ...

(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

Wish I'd started using it sooner.

Virtual machine backup can be done using a traditional backup product with agents in each virtual server's file store but can also be carried out via snapshot or by backing up the virtual machine and ...

Server and desktop virtualisation are key technologies driving forward today’s data centres. They bring huge efficiencies to IT that just weren’t possible in an all-physical world. But, delivering ...

This post offers fixes to resolve the issue where users can’t connect to a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) running on a Windows Server or client host machine. The ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

If you want to install OpenStack, but don’t want to have to dedicate multiple machines for the project, here’s how to do that with a single Ubuntu Server virtual machine. OpenStack has become the de ...