The best way to learn about virtualization is with your own lab. When most people think of a lab, they picture a closet housing a group of servers that cost several thousand dollars. While there are ...

The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere? Build a lab. The best way to learn anything is by doing it. You want to learn more about VMware vSphere?

The quest for an easy-to-set-up and affordable vSphere home lab is elusive for most of us, as it requires the procurement of proper hardware to run vSphere matched with our lack of free time to ...

Mocking up configurations in a lab environment is an important step in successful implementations. Here’s how to make use of a Synology NAS as an iSCSI target in your lab. It’s not uncommon for ...

I'm trying to get a bit more serious about VMware (I've been a VCP for a while, but want to work on some more advanced certifications) and am looking to build a three-host home lab. I'm trying to find ...

VMware vSphere is the dominant data center virtualization platform. This cheat sheet provides an introduction to what you need to know about vSphere. With all the talk of DevOps, containers, and ...

VMware vSphere 4, out today, is a big release, with plenty of new features and changes, but it’s not your run-of-the-mill major update. The new features, which range from VM clustering to agentless VM ...

With welcome improvements to key features, as well as the bundling of backup and recovery, the leading virtualization platform doesn't disappoint In the not so distant past, VMware held a long and ...

VMware hopes its vSphere 5 virtualisation suite will encourage small businesses to use its hypervisor by quadrupling the power available to virtual machines and eliminating the need for a dedicated ...

VMware vSphere 4.0 touches on almost every aspect of managing a virtual infrastructure, from ESX host provisioning to virtual network management to backup and recovery of virtual machines. Time will ...