Server consolidation: Applications running on servers typically use less than 20 percent of the available capacity. Server virtualization allows multiple VMs to run on the same physical server, thus ...

Virtualization — the move to go from real, physical hardware to virtual hardware — is being seen as one of the “next big things” in IT. There are more virtualization options for IT departments than ...

In a microservices architecture, one of the most important parts of a service is the module in charge of communicating with other services. You often need to test end-to-end how a service communicates ...

Of all the new features included in vSphere 6.5, the one that will be most useful to small and mid-sized vSphere deployments is vCenter High Availability (VCHA). I was working on VMware Education's ...

One of the most important benefits of virtualization is better hardware resource utilization; with fewer physical servers, organizations use less energy to deliver workloads and cool the underlying ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of Windows ...

One of the most exciting features in Windows Server 2008 is Hyper-V, Microsoft's foray into the virtualization market. With Hyper-V, Microsoft is taking on VMware ESX and Citrix XenServer by building ...