http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/preventing-vm-sprawl/ Fri, 24 May 2013 02:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/preventing-vm-sprawl/#comment-93364 techdude2723 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:10:48 +0000 #comment-93364 Just be weary of your virtual machines and deactivate them when they are no longer necessary. This is easy—download a free tool (netwrix virtual machine sprawl tracker is one example– http://www.netwrix.com) that will provide you with usage stats and report on VMs not being used so you can deactivate them.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/preventing-vm-sprawl/#comment-54217 jennymack Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:09:32 +0000 #comment-54217 You might want to check out Anil Desai’s crash course in virtualization. He discusses the issue of VM sprawl and managing it with a VM library.

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/preventing-vm-sprawl/#comment-53675 mhoesing Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:27:51 +0000 #comment-53675 Policy, and awareness training can supplement the sound approach above. Explaining the pain of software license litigation may suppress some of the desire to indiscriminately create guests. Configuresoft, Ecora and similar monitoring & assessment tools usually highlight rouge guests.

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