The best way to learn about virtualization is with your own lab. When most people think of a lab, they picture a closet housing a group of servers that cost several thousand dollars. While there are ...

The vSphere Distributed Switch extends the features and capabilities of virtual networks while simplifying provisioning and the ongoing process of configuration, monitoring, and management. vSphere ...

VMware vSphere 4.0 touches on almost every aspect of managing a virtual infrastructure, from ESX host provisioning to virtual network management to backup and recovery of virtual machines. Time will ...

Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...