I've got a 2008 (non-r2) SQL server that has been P2V'd into a vSphere 4.1 cluster. This is test SQL box, not a heavy hitter at all. Should be a great candidate to be a VM. All of the physical ...

I run VMware Workstation 5.0 and Fedora Core 4. Whenever I start up a guest OS running Linux with the 2.6 kernel (such as Ubuntu or any 2.6 live CD), the host shows ~20% CPU utilization by the ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

VMware eases the use of SmartNICs based on digital processing units to handle networking, security, storage, and other processes, freeing up enterprise-server CPU cycles. While it is clearly early in ...