Virtualization is the latest buzz word. You may wonder computers are getting cheaper every day, why should I care and why should I use virtualization? Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources such as:
I had a great request come in from Jay Rogers (thanks Jay!), who asked: What are the BIOS setting recommendations for IBM hardware?
I thought for a moment and realized I had no idea. So I started some research. Here’s a couple of items I foun...
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Today my friend Elias told me that VMware released version 3.0 (Build 127.642) of its VDI broker, formerly known as Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM).
VMware View 3.0 offers many new features such as offline VDI, which allows users to view their virtu...
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A large percentage of VMware administrators have already used VMware Converter to conduct physical to virtual (p2v) migrations of their physical servers. For some reason though, VMware Converter always seems to be overlooked as a tool to accomplish v...
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As the woes of the world economy extend into 2009, governments and businesses will be increasingly forced to do more with less. This is one of the key value propositions of virtualization, and as a result, virtualization is increasingly at the top of...
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Going into 2009, I know there are a lot of people who are ready to take the Windows 7 leap from their Windows XP environment. Although Vista was built to replace Windows XP, it didn't happen... for a number of reasons, people stuck with XP and chose...
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The death of Henry Gustav Molaison is one of the most compelling reminders in recent memory of the sometimes huge impact of unintended consequences. Molaison lost much of his memory in 1953 after small pieces of his brain were removed to relieve seiz...
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MED-V is a desktop virtualization product planned to become part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) MED-V is based on Microsoft's acquisition of Kidaro, a company that made desktop virtualization tools, and aims to resolve a number of ...
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Storage VMotion is a nifty feature in VMware ESX 3.5 (it existed earlier but there wasn’t really any way to use it) for migrating a running Virtual Machine’s virtual disks from one SAN datastore to another without shutting the VM down. Previously...
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In the industry, VmWare has taken over the Data Center. Server Consolidation has been going on for a while. Multiple servers
that used to run on dedicated hardware, are now Virtual Machines, multiple setting on one rack or blade server. Its not unco...
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