Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Microsoft, among others, offers a product that addresses this need: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition. In this Recipe, I'll discuss the ins and outs of server virtualization, and explain how to ...

Virtual Server 2005, which confusingly, is intended to run on top of Windows Server 2003 as its “host” operating system, is the logical follow-on to Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004. Both Virtual Server ...

Virtual Server 2005 creates virtual machines on top of the Windows 2003 Server operating system, instead of at the hardware level like many of its competitors. Hardware-level virtualization ensures ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...

Business problem: Faced with massive expansion, a title company was struggling to maintain IT service levels. Its employee population had tripled to 1,000 people at 40 offices in the past year. Some ...

The next-generation datacenter is filled with virtualization, offering virtual servers, virtual desktops, virtual storage, and virtual applications -- but what about the network? When creating the ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualization is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you? While the benefits of virtual machines on ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...