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• A VMware licensing guide to expanding your environment

  Aside from initial budgeting for VMware products, there are some practical aspects of licensing to consider, including different configurations and maintenance. Continue Reading

• Execute Import-VM and Export-VM PowerShell commands in Hyper-V

  Although you can use Hyper-V Manager or SCVMM to import and export VMs, it's just as easy to use a couple PowerShell commands to perform those actions. Continue Reading

• Use the Ansible configuration tool to effectively manage a Vagrant VM

  Pairing Ansible and Vagrant eases the burden of deploying and managing VMs in your virtual environment. Follow these configuration management tips to get started. Continue Reading

• Create a maintenance window without end-user disruption

  Set virtualization maintenance windows with your organization's processes in mind, and establish policies to prevent unnecessary outages. Continue Reading

• Check the system hardware for Hyper-V requirements

  Not only do you need a hardware processor that can support a virtual environment, but you also need additional support to take advantage of some Hyper-V features. Continue Reading

• Use Azure Container Instances during workload spikes

  Capacity planning in a virtual environment can be challenging, but with Azure Container Instances and Kubernetes connector software, you can more easily serve peak workloads.Continue Reading

• Use containers with confidence by following these tips

  Before you decide on a container platform and management tool, learn more about the technology, the apps that run best in containers and ways to troubleshoot.Continue Reading

• Allocate the right amount of virtual processor resources to a VM

  Think about what types of workloads are running on a VM before assigning compute resources, and consider using vCPUs from different cores for demanding workloads.Continue Reading

• Consolidate servers with these performance enhancements

  Higher solid-state drive capacity and CPU core counts are just a couple of the factors leading to the next wave of server consolidation. So, footprint plan accordingly.Continue Reading

• Understand vCPU affinity and anti-affinity features

  Manage vCPU distribution with affinity and anti-affinity features to alleviate the potential performance problems that can be caused by hyper-threading.Continue Reading

• Set up a SCVMM VIP template to control load balancing

  With a virtual IP template, you can control the way load balancing is handled in SCVMM for an individual workload. Follow these easy steps to create one.Continue Reading

• Achieve the best VM networking performance

  Start by using multiple NICs and organizing complementary VMs on the same host. Also, consider reserving network traffic by type and using hardware support for virtualization.Continue Reading

• Storage I/O control and other strategies to prevent VM storage problems

  Ensure adequate VM storage resources by reducing VM count per LUN, using queue depth throttling, limiting disk requests, enabling SIOC features and monitoring storage latency.Continue Reading

• Optimize memory resources in your virtual environment

  Beyond allocating the right amount of memory to each workload, virtualization administrators have the option of using various memory management techniques.Continue Reading

• Make the most of your vCPU resources with these tips

  Be sure to provision the right virtual CPUs to a VM and be aware of processor hyper-threading. Also, use CPU affinity strategically and scale out rather than up.Continue Reading