So we are looking at one of our UCS blades (B200M2) running a server 2012 vm on esx5.1 and getting every bit of performance out of it we can. Below are the power related settings, we are not concerned ...

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something ...

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 ...

PV drivers are available for some VM products... like running Linux on KVM there are PV drivers for network and block devices and Novell has a partnership with Microsoft and provide PV network and ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google this week announced general availability of new ...

InovaWave is offering an interesting, very focused product family, called DXtreme, aimed at optimizing the performance of that optimization of virtual machine performance on Microsoft's 32-bit and ...

A VMWare official on Friday scoffed at Oracle’s contention that its recent entry into the virtualization market performs better than “the existing leader server virtualization product.” Oracle has not ...

One of the claims to fame of VMware's virtualization products have been their ability to perform very well over the last few years - creating a benchmark, in my mind, for others to reach and achieve ...

Brien walks through the steps of troubleshooting a (very) slow Windows 10 virtual machine. Hint: Disable your virtual memory at your own risk. The minimum hardware requirements for running Windows 10 ...

VMware boosts visibility into virtual apps with purchase of B-hive Networks. VMware has agreed to acquire B-hive Networks, an application performance management software vendor, the company announced ...

When it comes to making virtual server farms easier to manage, the SAN is the great enabler. But when it comes to maximizing virtual server performance, the SAN is the great bottleneck. A single host ...

Brien walks through the steps of troubleshooting a (very) slow Windows 10 virtual machine. Hint: Disable your virtual memory at your own risk. The minimum hardware requirements for running Windows 10 ...