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For years, there has been a feature battle between VMware vSphere® and Microsoft Hyper-V®. In general, vSphere has won the feature battle, although Hyper-V is certainly no slouch; the product can hold its own. Although vSphere’s superiorit... View More

If you’re involved with virtualization, you have probably heard the term “VM Sprawl” at some point. Because it’s a general term, you may not know what it means exactly — is it even real? And does it exist in your environment? VM sprawl is ... View More

Virtualization changes the way just about everything is done in the data center, including capacity planning. Traditional physical server environments are fairly straightforward to plan for capacity, as they typically are dedicated to a ... View More

Having a storage I/O bottleneck is perhaps one of the biggest threats to performance in a virtual environment and also one of the more challenging issues to identify and resolve. Bottlenecks can happen as the result of many things, from si... View More

Date: 07 Jun, 2011 | Registration Required

Virtual environments have unique challenges and requirements that are not present in traditional physical environments.

Performance monitoring with virtualization is much more complicated than with traditional servers. The virtualization layer that is inserted between the physical hardware and the guest operating systems of the virtual machines changes the ... View More

While virtualization has been a hot topic in the IT sphere for a number of years, we’re still only at the beginning of the journey when it comes to understanding how to manage these new infrastructures. Barb Goldworm (Focus) talks to Sanja... View More