The adoption of virtualization technology has made the IT infrastructure faster, smarter, and more efficient. The ratio of businesses migrating to virtual infrastructure has been rapidly increasing. Until the evolution of virtualization and hypervisor, the operation of IT continued with several physical units employed as server/workstation each tied to the single operating system. Whereas in the virtual infrastructure, the hypervisor [...]
Running a vSphere environment out of the support program has always been highly inadvisable due to the risk of being a sitting duck for any major outage. Keeping your environment supported means VMware will have your back should things get spicy. Originally GA'd on September 19th 2013, vSphere 5.5 will soon celebrate its fifth birthday by digging its grave. It [...]
Today’s hypervisor can do really amazing things from many different aspects, including compute and memory, storage, and networking. Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V is no exception and can provide enterprise environments with a powerful solution to provide solutions to most business-critical use cases. Windows Server Hyper-V can provide enterprises with a very versatile and fully featured solution from a networking perspective. [...]
Hyper-V is Microsoft’s current generation hypervisor. Unlike earlier Microsoft virtualization solutions, such as Virtual PC, Hyper-V uses hardware assisted virtualization. This means that virtual machines do not require hardware emulation (except in special circumstances), and instead communicates directly with the underlying hardware. Consequently, a virtual machine running on Hyper-V is able to perform as well as an operating system that [...]
In the previous post, we discussed the steps to convert VMware VM to Hyper-V using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). In this second part, we will discuss, How to convert a VMware virtual machine to Hyper-V using System Center 20160 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). Converting a Virtual Machine from VMware to Hyper-V using System Center 20160 - Virtual Machine [...]
It is great to see that VMware is still investing a lot in its VDI offer with a rather aggressive roadmap. The version 7.4 of Horizon was released at the very beginning of 2018, closely followed by 7.5 at the end of May 2018 which brought support for vSphere 6.7 and a fully featured HTML5 client. It didn’t take long [...]
The Vembu BDR Free Edition is standout amongst the most extensive free solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery that it would suit the requirements of any IT setup. Its free forever, Post the trial you can continue to use the product without any licensing Take in more on this version in the accompanying infographic. Follow our Twitter and Facebook feeds [...]
The backup and disaster recovery needs are increasing with every passing day. Many vendors are available in the market who claim to offer solutions to your requirements. Establishing a backup software is a crucial task but it takes a lot more to choose the right solution which is to be deployed in your diverse IT environment. Most IT Admins face [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V contains myriads of configuration options that are able to be taken advantage of by Hyper-V administrators. The virtual machines themselves offer a wide variety of configurations that enable administrators to define the capabilities of the Hyper-V virtual machine itself. Two of these configuration related terms when working with a Microsoft Hyper-V environment are the Virtual Machine Generations and [...]
Companies are always looking to move their systems to a more stable and typically, to a Virtual Environments that license is less costly. Hyper-V at this point is receiving more customers since it is stable and getting much better as a Hypervisor, and mainly because of license cost. Since nowadays Hyper-V is a more stable environment companies are now deciding, [...]
