Virtual machines have been common in mainframes for decades. Now they’re gaining ground as a way to more efficiently configure Windows and Linux blade servers. A virtual machine is software that lets ...

Microsoft, among others, offers a product that addresses this need: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition. In this Recipe, I'll discuss the ins and outs of server virtualization, and explain how to ...

Virtualization software vendors offer some interesting management tools that augment hypervisor software. One class of such tools is the “live-migration” tool, first implemented by VMware in its ...

When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry. With the prior version, VMware Infrastructure 3.5, it was easy ...

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.

Virtualization industry observers expect Microsoft to eliminate a licensing restriction that has hampered the mobility of virtual servers, perhaps as soon as next week. Under current Microsoft rules, ...