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• Understanding Hyper-V's failover settings in Failover Cluster Management

  Virtual machines that are colocated onto hosts can pose compliance risks. There are workarounds, including the use of Failover Cluster Management, to secure Hyper-V environments. Continue Reading

• The five best free tools for Microsoft Hyper-V management

  Microsoft's Hyper-V makes virtualization easier for IT organizations of all sizes, but these free tools can improve virtual machine management. Continue Reading

• Virtual disaster recovery strategies in action

  Virtualization is changing the disaster recovery landscape. This e-book is a beginner's guide to virtualization with chapters on disaster recovery (DR), test and development, server consolidation, high availability, storage, security and key ... Continue Reading

• Virtualization capacity planning strategy guide

  If a lack of strategic capacity planning or an ever-expanding virtualization environment has taken a toll on virtual server performance, it's time for a capacity planning strategy. This guide covers tools, tasks and best practices for virtual server... Continue Reading

• Virtualization deployment: The assessment and planning phases

  An expert explains the key phases of virtualization deployment projects and outlines the core tasks in the assessment and planning stages. Continue Reading

• Virtual systems management efficiency: Improving admin-to-VM ratios

  Increasing administrator-to-virtual machine ratios can boost IT productivity and systems management efficiency and reduce IT costs. An expert explains how to use virtual systems management tools to improve this metric.Continue Reading

• Using Virtual Machine Manager for rapid Hyper-V deployment

  Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in Hyper-V allows to you create a VM template easily and rapidly deploy virtual machines in your environment.Continue Reading

• New features in Microsoft's SCVMM R2 improve Hyper-V management

  Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 offers several features to improve Hyper-V management, such as Live Migration support, improved LUN management and network optimization.Continue Reading

• The 10 best virtual infrastructure management tools

  Virtual infrastructure management tools have flooded the market, but only 10 make our expert's list. Learn about the capabilities and benefits of these 10 tools.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery strategies for Hyper-V

  If you don't know about Hyper-V's disaster recovery technologies, you should. An expert explains how to develop a Hyper-V business continuity strategy.Continue Reading

• Using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool in Hyper-V environments

  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit can be used for Hyper-V consolidation planning and migrations. Learn how to install and use MAPContinue Reading

• Capacity planning for virtual environments

  Effective virtual environment capacity planning requires taking inventory of applications, allocating computing power and organizing disaster recovery resources. An expert outlines capacity planning considerations in this tip.Continue Reading

• Virtual lab management planning best practices

  Given the low risk, companies often embark on virtualization projects by virtualizing a test and development environment. But even virtualized lab environments can pose problems.Continue Reading

• Managing Hyper-V's security permissions

  While the default settings for Hyper-V's security permissions can work well in smaller settings, you may need to adjust these settings in larger environments. This tip outlines setting configuration with Hyper-V's not-so-intuitive Authorization ...Continue Reading

• Citrix XenServer tip: Doing a physical-to-virtual conversion

  Follow these steps to use Citrix XenServer's physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion module, and learn when using third-party P2V tools would be a be better option. XenServer's module only works with certain operating system, such as Red Hat Enterprise...Continue Reading

• Managing change in dynamic virtual environments

  Virtualization brings flexibility and dexterity, enabling rapid change. But change management processes are at odds with that flexibility. How can you reconcile the two?Continue Reading

• Managing virtual machines with Microsoft System Center

  Microsoft System Center is a strong asset in Microsoft's growing family of virtualization products that automates many administration tasks. But while the Windows Server management tool streamlines VM management, there is still room for improvement ...Continue Reading

• How virtualization impacts IT staff, security and change management

  Virtualization breeds three new challenges: reorganizing IT department taskforces, recognizing new security vulnerabilities, and working with a complex change management process.Continue Reading

• Managing PCI devices in virtual machines

  In this article, Sander van Vugt explains the management options that exist with regard to PCI devices and virtual machines.Continue Reading

• Virtual machine installation: Managing Xen block devices

  In this tip, Sander van Vugt explains three ways to manage a disk device for Xen.Continue Reading

• Virtual infrastructure management - Step-by-step virtualization

  Tackle the complex challenges of virtual infrastructure management with Alessandro Perilli, including mandatory control of physical and virtual resources availability, usage and access; deployment of disaster recovery solutions; provisioning of new ...Continue Reading

• VMware on Mac will do little to ease desktop management pain

  VMware Mac product will not impact desktop management or help standardize platforms in heterogeneous shops.Continue Reading