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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

"Intel servers are the most under-utilized asset in a company," says Michael Mullany, senior director of product management at VMware. "CPU speeds have gone into the stratosphere but software ...