Virtual machine

Making a P2V conversion: Driver cleansing

Successful physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions revolve around getting the virtual environment correct before presenting the actual workload to the new VM. In this video blog, Rick Vanover discusses some conversion tasks that can help a VM function optimally as the workload goes virtual from a...

Xen version 3.3 enhances performance, scalability to open source hypervisor

Xen.org announced the release of a new version of the project's open source hypervisor, Xen 3.3 today, with enhancements to security, performance and scalability.

AMD Opteron powering top servers on VMmark list

AMD's quad-core Opteron processors powered the top three performing servers on VMware Inc.'s VMmark virtualization...

VMware helps hospital reduce data center power, increase performance

Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, Inc. announced that Rochester General Hospital(RGH) deployed VMware Infrastructure 3 to scale and manage its...

Making a P2V conversion: Stage-phase configuration

A well-documented procedure for physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions still lacks the valuable information learned by experience. In this video blog, Rick Vanover introduces the stage configuration phase of a P2V conversion. When this phase and other phases of a conversion are used in a procedural...

News of the week: VMware’s ESX 3.5 bug causes VM failure

This week, the biggest news item on SearchServerVirtualization.com

Sun xVM Virtual Box expands reach with global OEM agreements

Santa Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a handful of multi-year original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech Ltd. to allow them to deliver Sun's xVM VirtualBox...

Optimizing operating systems for virtual hosts

By eliminating wasteful resource use on your host servers, you can make more resources available for additional virtual machines.

Most operating systems today have been developed to run on physical servers in non-virtual...

Recovering servers, virtual machines after power failure

An event like a complete data center power failure is something you never want to experience. Having recently gone through one I thought I would share some lessons learned from it.

This particular data center had a full UPS...

When not to treat VMs like physical servers