SearchServerVirtualization
New & Notable
Get Started
Learn how the vSwitch Controller works
The vSwitch Controller provides admins with extensive visibility into the network environment, making it easier to optimize that environment and improve application performance.
Get Started
What's the difference between containers and VMs?
Containers have rapidly come into focus as a popular option for deploying applications, but they have limitations and are fundamentally different than VMs.
Get Started
Overcome VM migration complexity with proper preparation
Discover best practices to properly prepare your VMs for cloud migration to avoid errors and issues with business needs. The key to success is doing your migration homework.
News
RHV 4.3, CNV support apps old and new
Most new apps start in containers nowadays. However, certain legacy applications still don't work with containers. RHV 4.3 hopes to help bridge the gap.
Trending Topics
-
VMware virtualization News
VMware cloud service manages on-premises infrastructure
VMware's new cloud service enables corporate users to deploy and manage on-premises environments in both their core data centers and edge locations.
-
Microsoft Hyper-V management Get Started
Prepare the host machine for Hyper-V containers
Once you enable the Hyper-V role and Windows container feature, install Docker Engine, container modules and a base OS image to prepare the host for Hyper-V container deployment.
-
Vendor selection Evaluate
Review Type 2 hypervisor platforms
Hypervisors such as VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon 7, Oracle VM VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop provide value to small data centers in different ways.
-
VM performance management Manage
Zero in on CPU and vCPU management
Proper vCPU allocation can be difficult to achieve, but if you have a good understanding of the technology and take advantage of these helpful features, it will be within reach.
-
Virtual server backup and storage Problem Solve
Troubleshoot the inability to create a VM on a VSAN
Monitor the performance of your VSAN and VMs to ensure one isn't affecting the other. Performance metrics and alerts can make it easy to spot VSAN issues before they affect VMs.
-
Virtualization costs, licensing and support issues
IT shops on the clock to upgrade vSphere 5.5 to 6.5
To position themselves for future needs and technologies, many vSphere 5.5 customers may have to move out of their comfort zones and upgrade to version 6.5.
Topics Covered
-
Benefits of server virtualization (4) +
-
Challenges of server virtualization (4) +
-
Server virtualization hypervisors and management (10) +
-
Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture (9) +
- Application virtualization
- Cloud computing architecture
- Cloud computing infrastructure
- Introduction to virtualization and how-tos
- Network virtualization
- Networking for Server Virtualization
- Server hardware and virtualization
- Using virtual machine appliances
- Virtualized clusters and high-performance computing
-
Server virtualization management tools and practices (5) +
-
Server virtualization security management and compliance policies (2) +
Server virtualization staffing, careers and budget
-
Server virtualization strategies and use cases (5) +
-
Virtualization backup and disaster recovery strategies (2) +
Have a question for an expert?
Please add a title for your question
Get answers from your peers on your most technical Server Virtualization challenges.
Meet all of our Server Virtualization experts
-
Brien Posey asks:
What tools do you use besides vCenter mapping to effectively manage your VMware environment?
Find Solutions For Your Project
-
Evaluate
Decide between Hyper-V containers and VMs
There are different use cases for Hyper-V containers and VMs, but the most important thing to take into consideration when choosing between them is your application needs.
-
Review Type 2 hypervisor platforms
-
Review Type 1 hypervisor platforms
-
Compare Storage QoS implementation in Hyper-V, vSphere
-
-
Problem Solve
Bridge the virtualization and container skills gap
Businesses face organizational and management challenges as their support staff transitions from virtualization to a new development and management environment.
-
Cut virtualization costs with these strategies
-
Container adoption creates security holes
-
Virtualize and organize data from large servers
-
-
Manage
Overcome VM migration complexity with proper preparation
Discover best practices to properly prepare your VMs for cloud migration to avoid errors and issues with business needs. The key to success is doing your migration homework.
-
Master multi-hypervisor management
-
Get to know 4 virtualization types
-
Windows and Hyper-V container management made easy
-
-
E-Handbook | March 2019
Server hardware to run ROBO virtual workloads
Download -
E-Handbook | April 2018
What's new in private cloud management?
Download -
E-Handbook | May 2017
If SDDC is your next-generation data center architecture, plan now
Download -
E-Handbook | March 2017
Is cloud bursting the best solution for compute capacity overload?
Download -
E-Chapter | August 2016
Be prepared with server benchmarking, documentation tools
Download
Server Virtualization Basics
-
Get Started
Manage a VMware environment with vCenter maps
Managing a VMware environment can be complex, but a single mapping tool can smooth the process significantly by showing the relationships between objects.
-
Get Started
Learn how the vSwitch Controller works
The vSwitch Controller provides admins with extensive visibility into the network environment, making it easier to optimize that environment and improve application performance.
-
Get Started
What's the difference between containers and VMs?
Containers have rapidly come into focus as a popular option for deploying applications, but they have limitations and are fundamentally different than VMs.
Multimedia
Vendor Resources
-
News
View All -
Open source virtualization
RHV 4.3, CNV support apps old and new
Most new apps start in containers nowadays. However, certain legacy applications still don't work with containers. RHV 4.3 hopes to help bridge the gap.
-
VMware virtualization
VMware cloud service manages on-premises infrastructure
VMware's new cloud service enables corporate users to deploy and manage on-premises environments in both their core data centers and edge locations.
-
VMware management tools
VMware vRealize updates tackle hybrid cloud costs
The latest versions of vRealize Operations, Network Insight and Automation offer tools to help VMware admins effectively manage workload resources and control cloud costs.