If you remember listening to a recent Virtualization Report Podcast earlier this month, you may well remember the back and forth "Performance Comparison" news coming out of both camps - VMware and ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

A VMWare official on Friday scoffed at Oracle’s contention that its recent entry into the virtualization market performs better than “the existing leader server virtualization product.” Oracle has not ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

So we are looking at one of our UCS blades (B200M2) running a server 2012 vm on esx5.1 and getting every bit of performance out of it we can. Below are the power related settings, we are not concerned ...

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Virtugo’s virtualSuite offers integrated performance monitoring and VM optimization tools. Its cost depends on which tools you drop into your box. Virtugo Software‘s virtualSuite offers integrated ...