Few virtual computer environments are as stable, popular and rich in features as VMware. I've been a fan and user of VMware Workstation since version 2.0. I use it for testing network applications, ...

VMware 5.0 ships with a new feature known as VM Storage DRS. Though you're probably more familiar with host DRS, don't confuse the two. Storage DRS' design is to take some pressure off of VMware ...

Do you think big companies don't listen to your insignificant voice? Ordinarily, I might agree that they don't. I would join the chorus in saying that big corporations bow to their boards and ...

VMware’s latest salvo in its virtualization war with Microsoft is vSphere 5.5, which features a host of improvements, the most interesting being high availability, support for Big Data/Hadoop and ...

Virtual machines (VMs) allow you to explore Linux without permanently altering your computer. If you're curious about Linux ...

Redmond’s contentious Windows 8 is almost upon us, and the virtualization apps are already prepped for it with the latest incarnations of Parallels Desktop 8 and VMware Fusion 5. While the main focus ...

After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle’s VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security. Oracle VM VirtualBox runs ...

VMware vSphere 5 introduced a set of virtual machine (VM) icons to help virtualisation admins identify the different types of objects in their vCenter inventory. Although that’s good news, a bug in ...

In last week's article, we discussed virtualization and its role in reducing server sprawl. We included VMware server as one of the products used to virtualize a data center. VMware also sells a ...