virtualization

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Virtualize everything (except in these four scenarios)

February 6, 2012 7:08am PST

Virtualization should be the de facto standard in deploying workloads today. However, there are valid exceptions. Rick Vanover lists four of them in this blog post.

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Microsoft's ECI may provide best options for virtualized environments

January 20, 2012 11:51am PST

Virtualizing and deploying VMs is the easy part; scaling the solution in a simple matter becomes the hard part. Rickatron offers one easy way to scale modern infrastructure.

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Storage vMotion virtual disk format options with vSphere 5

January 31, 2012 6:00am PST

New disk options make Storage vMotion tasks give vSphere administrators more control over virtual machine disk formats. Rickatron shows how in this blog post.

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Virtualization goes mobile

January 16, 2012 6:40am PST

At CES, VMWare demonstrated what amounts to a virtual phone allowing a single smartphone to run a separate virtual phone that could be independently configured, monitored, and maintained.

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Beware stricter Manifest checking in Android ICS

January 26, 2012 7:32pm PST

Find out why your application is working fine in Gingerbread and on the Ice Cream Sandwich virtual machine, but why you cannot run it on an ICS physical device.

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Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview

January 3, 2012 9:00am PST

Deploying virtual fibre channel disks is a frequent practice in virtualization. Rick Vanover highlights some of the many options that exist for Windows Server 8.

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Are operational considerations overlooked in virtualization?

January 16, 2012 6:00am PST

Virtualization is a melding of many technologies and the operational aspect of this new technology may not be given enough attention, as Rick Vanover explains in this blog post.

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VDI or IDV: Which choice makes the most sense?

February 21, 2012 8:42am PST

Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) is a relatively new concept to hit the technology world and has the potential to turn the whole desktop virtualization game on its head.

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Configure a Hyper-V VM for automatic startup

February 20, 2012 9:00am PST

Ensuring all pre-requisite configuration of a virtual environment are online during a startup is critical to everything else working correctly. In this post, Rickatron shows a nifty option for...

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One IT pro's predictions for virtualization in 2012

December 29, 2011 6:00am PST

Virtualization continues to increase our potential as infrastructure administrators. In this post, Rickatron makes some predictions for virtualization in 2012.

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Q&A

Why is Parallels Desktop such a battery hog on OS Lion?

December 26, 2011 8:21am PST

Why is Parallels Desktop such a battery hog on OS Lion? I installed Parallels desktop version of the virtual machine software when I was still on OS Snow Leopard. I installed an extra 4 GB of...

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Discussion Threads

Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview

January 3, 2012 1:10pm PST

Windows Server 8 Virtual Fibre Channel with Hyper-V overview article root NPIV This is the useful feature for the people who has a requirement of different storage then the one used for vmdk and...

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Can I have one virtal HD with 2 OS (Win7)?

January 5, 2012 1:21am PST

Can I have one virtal HD with 2 OS (Win7)? I have on one PC 2 OS (Win7) with on each OS a virtual pc with XP on. Is it possible to use the same vhd that is located on another HD (v:\virual...

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Discussion Threads

Can the cloud be safe for banks?

January 4, 2012 11:25am PST

Can the cloud be safe for banks? article root Serious reply If your bank has a lot of "unused server capacity" laying around you need to investigate why your Admins and engineers didn't size your...

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unable to join a domain form VM

January 16, 2012 8:38am PST

unable to join a domain form VM I am having such a difficult time joining a domain from a win7 Virtual machine. The host machine is the DC and has Ad and DNS installed. It???s Win2k8 r2. Using...

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One IT pro's predictions for virtualization in 2012

December 29, 2011 8:30am PST

One IT pro's predictions for virtualization in 2012 article root You'll always have some hardware devices... For example, high-volume environments probably won't be able to virtualize their...

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virtualization and its effects on organization in managers point of view !

December 31, 2011 11:47pm PST

virtualization and its effects on organization in managers point of view ! hello , recently i started to search about the different effects of virtualization on organizations ! not from IT...

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A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?

January 17, 2012 12:40am PST

A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL? article root I Don't Even Know Where Exactly To Begin... I love Google. I love MySQL. And, I have made a GREAT deal of money by utilizing both. Not...

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how do I Change the default drive from c to d

January 20, 2012 2:30am PST

how do I Change the default drive from c to d I have a Toshiba laptop and 2 drive partitions; c and d. The c is almost full and the di virtually empty. I want to be using the d partition now as my...

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Are operational considerations overlooked in virtualization?

January 16, 2012 7:29am PST

Are operational considerations overlooked in virtualization? article root Operational Considerations Excellent article. I keep on seeing organizations that seem to think that Virtualization will...

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