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Capacity planning for virtualization
Micro VMs can present unique management challenges
The haphazard deployment of micro VMs can eventually lead to issues ranging from IP address depletion to serious performance problems resulting from extreme resource contention. Continue Reading
3 tools admins can use for private cloud capacity planning
Admins can better manage their private clouds with capacity planning tools, such as specified quotas, resource monitoring and predictive scheduling. Continue Reading
AIOps use cases address complexity in virtual data centers
The ever-growing complexity of virtual infrastructures is making management a struggle, but an AIOps platform can enable admins to transform raw data into useful information. Continue Reading
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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
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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