Discovering the causes of performance problems in virtualized systems are often more difficult than without virtualization, because they can be caused by changes in infrastructure configuration rather than the user’s application. vQuery is a system that collects, archives, and exposes configuration changes alongside fine-grained performance data, so the two can be correlated. It gathers configuration ...

The average virtualization administrator finds it difficult to manage hundreds of hosts and thousands of virtual machines. At the same time, almost anyone on earth with a Smartphone is adept at using social media sites like Facebook for managing hundreds of friends. Social media succeeds because the interfaces are intuitive, the updates are configurable and ...