How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

A new and much needed tool has entered the Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 world. Called VMRCPlus, this Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus tool is a welcomed addition to managing any Microsoft ...

Not many products truly deliver what they promise. Scalent V/OE (Virtual Operating Environment) 2.0, however, comes as close to keeping its pledge as anything I’ve seen. Scalent is attempting — and ...

B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment ...

Multi-system virtual server and management environments can be quite complex to install. It appears that the folks over at Virtual Iron have come up with an interesting way to make deployment of ...

Managing virtual servers requires IT managers to think outside the box – literally. System administrators trained to check the health and availability of physical servers now must figure out how to ...

On the surface, security questions surrounding virtual servers don’t seem much different than those for the physical machines on which they run. In fact, starting a virtual security audit by keeping ...

Microsoft recently rolled out Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. The update for Microsoft’s flagship server OS includes a number of features to improve and enhance managing virtual servers with Windows ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

As the use of Linux in the data center continues to expand, the need for management tools for deployment, version control and patch management becomes more critical. In addition, the loads on servers ...