VirtualBox seems to be gaining popularity with a lot of system administrators who want a simple solution for running virtual servers on their desktop. I’d say in the last couple of days, I’ve heard the name VirtualBox thrown around the office by 3 different groups of admins. I’ll be honest, I’ve never used it but [...]
Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<< Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type [...]
Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB “C” disk so what do you do when you run out of space? Here are three methods which might work for you to increase the size of your virtual server’s disk. Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]
In November I visited the VMware users group for the Phoenix area and one of the big topics was P2V. Not enough can be said about all the challenges there are to successfully convert physical servers to virtual servers (P2V), especially when your data center has hundreds of servers with various configurations and operating systems. Sometimes [...]
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