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Capacity planning for virtualization

• Taking charge of VM allocation, troubleshooting methods

  Long-term virtual infrastructure health leads to business growth. To achieve this, you must master virtual machine capacity planning and troubleshooting techniques. Continue Reading

• Use virtualized GPU power to boost efficiency and innovation

  GPUs enable complex graphics and boost the power of virtual environments. As resource consumption rises with compute-intensive applications, GPUs can be essential assets. Continue Reading

• Develop a solid virtualization capacity planning strategy

  Creating an effective virtualization capacity planning strategy is no small feat; it requires a great deal of careful consideration. This essential guide can get you started. Continue Reading

• Use capacity planning and VM sizing to upgrade your infrastructure

  This chapter offers guidance on how to keep virtual machines running efficiently. Critical to this process of virtualization capacity planning is appropriately provisioning resources. Best practices for capacity planning are detailed here so that an... Continue Reading

• Virtual capacity planning step one: Evaluate what you have

  Taking stock of the VMs in your environment today will lay the foundation for an effective capacity planning strategy for virtual environments. Continue Reading

• Resizing a VHDX file without missing a beat

  VHD files reigned supreme in Hyper-V -- until Microsoft came out with VHDX files. Knowing how to resize all three disk types of VHDX files can be beneficial in your environment.Continue Reading

• Memory management techniques you should remember

  These techniques offer different approaches to memory management. Remind yourself which methods are best for the use of your space.Continue Reading

• Overprovisioning VMs may be safe, but it isn't sound

  A strategy of allocating more resources than a VM needs may prevent performance troubles, but can mean unnecessary hardware additions.Continue Reading

• Virtualization management tools to boost data center efficiency

  Virtualization admins' top concern is no longer choosing a hypervisor -- it's choosing the right suite of tools that will help with overall virtualization management, improve VM performance, make capacity predictions, and enable self-service IT and ...Continue Reading

• VM management and capacity prediction

  As hypervisor features have become increasingly similar, the new vendor battleground is virtualization management software. Microsoft and VMware offer similar capabilities, and they are striving to make their products stand out by touting management...Continue Reading

• Why is virtual server capacity planning so difficult?

  Virtual server capacity planning is critical to tracking resource use to ensure peak performance and minimize downtime.Continue Reading

• Virtual data center challenges and management tools that help conquer them

  Constant refinements and upgrades can cause virtualization challenges -- such as VM sprawl -- but management tools can help smooth the process.Continue Reading

• Refresh your approach to private cloud capacity planning

  Traditional approaches to capacity planning won't work when it comes to private clouds. Third-party tools can help ease the pain.Continue Reading

• Five strategies for VM sprawl control and prevention

  Be proactive with your VM sprawl control strategies to avoid resource shortages and performance problems.Continue Reading

• Determining what type of server is a good candidate for virtualization

  There's no easy answer when it comes to deciding what type of server to virtualize, but there are important guidelines to help sway your decision.Continue Reading