Microsoft and VMware are pitched in battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project?
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/15/2013
VMworld 2013 is no ordinary show. For Virtualization Review, it's the event of the year -- the one that takes our breath away as we try to keep up with new developments and updates upon updates on products that churn out of the labs of VMware and the related third-party products and services ecosystem.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/01/2013
With 358 sessions, time is money. Here are five sessions where your time will be well spent.
- By Mike Matchett
- 07/01/2013
I find myself working within vSphere Web Client more these days, and using the product is growing on me.
- By Rick Vanover
- 07/01/2013
Hear this, Hyper-V deniers: The hypervisor you hate is the hypervisor you love
- By Greg Shields, Don Jones
- 07/01/2013
Foglight Free Edition has enough capability to figure out your performance and capacity issues. Here's a look at the various tools.
The cloud has shifted the frequency with which we need to test our systems' capabilities to come back from disaster, from months to right now and often.
Here's why network virtualization is a better fit than traditional networking for IaaS cloud deployments.
These intensely competitive hypervisors by all appearances are the same. But it's the tools for managing their environments that make all the difference in the world.
- By Greg Shields, Don Jones
- 06/05/2013
Automation and orchestration is the key to moving a cloud between its private and public manifestations.
- By Anand Iyengar, Gregory Ness
- 05/15/2013
One thing virtualization admins can't do without: VM migration. We look at improvements that Microsoft has made in this area to conclude our series.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/08/2013
Storing VMs on file shares, CSV enhancements, guest Fibre Channel, and the new VHDX format: it's all about better ways to work with storage in this version of Hyper-V.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/29/2013
Here's a cool new trick I learned absolutely by accident when working with a Wordpress server.
Security monitoring must adapt to remain effective in the cloud and virtualization arena. That's where role-based monitoring comes in.
Let's look at what Microsoft's hypervisor offers by way of improvements to security and disaster recovery.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/15/2013
It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next.
Now that you know what's new in networking in Hyper-V, let's look at scalability, NUMA and VM monitoring.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/01/2013
Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate.
- By Mike Matchett
- 03/20/2013
Enhancements to the newest version of Hyper-V can affect the design of your networks. Here's a look at NIC Teaming and some new data center design options.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 03/18/2013
It's nice to know that VMware's documentation is accessible on my iPhone or Amazon Kindle. Here's how to gain access, too.