Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

Storage DRS (distributed resource scheduler) allows for aggregate storage management within a datastore cluster. When enabled, Storage DRS can give you recommendations for VM disk placement in an ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

For all the capabilities that virtual machine disk files bring to the IT table, there is one issue that stands out to me that sometimes makes my life difficult - virtual hard disk format compatibility ...

GottaBeMobile reader, Taxman, sent a few questions about virtualization. He writes, “Can you tell me more about how virtual box compares to the commercial products (VMWare and Parallels) on a Mac?

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...

Server virtualization best practices and tips on what not to do Your email has been sent Server virtualization has been growing in popularity for a decade, and some people now believe it’s not just ...

How to add new drives to a VirtualBox virtual machine Your email has been sent Anyone that has ever used a virtual machine (VM) understands how important it is to be able to allocate enough storage ...