You have many options for deploying virtual machines. But here's one method you should become familiar with, as it'll help you when the other options become obsolete. You have likely deployed hundreds ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

I have the case open with our provider but I thought it might not hurt to ask the question here. We are deploying an application on a vCloud director IaaS provider. Unfortunately, we're encountering a ...

Virtualization has swept through the data center in recent years, enabling IT transformation and serving as the secret sauce behind cloud computing. Now it’s time to examine what’s next for ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...