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Download Now: 6 VMware Backup Best Practices
Understand these 6 crucial best practices for backing up and restoring VMs on your ESXi host. These strategies will ensure backups are protected and restoration is successful. Also in this exclusive download are 3 straightforward cloud backup security guidelines.
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August 28, 2012
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VMware vSphere licensing changes -- decoded
Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer -- As expected, VMware made a grand show of ending the much-reviled vRAM pricing program this week at VMworld 2012 in favor of per-CPU licensing and bundled up its ...
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June 04, 2012
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Jun'12
Veeam releases free backup tool for VMware and Hyper-V
VMware and Hyper-V admins can now get a free set of tools from Veeam for backing up, copying and transporting virtual machines. Veeam Backup Free Edition has no time limit on use, but it is limited ...
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August 22, 2011
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Veeam scales out with Backup and Replication 6
Hyper-V support was the headline when Veeam previewed its Backup and Replication 6 product at Microsoft TechEd. But with the new release, which will begin shipping in the fourth quarter, Veeam’s ...
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August 01, 2011
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Aug'11
Netflix streaming, VMware licensing and the end of the world as we know it
At its core, virtualization is the abstraction of data from the physical world. We tend to look at virtualization as the abstraction of operating systems and applications from servers and PCs, but ...
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virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a desktop virtualization technology wherein a desktop operating system (OS) -- typically Microsoft Windows -- runs and is managed in an on-premises or cloud data center. Continue Reading
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paravirtualization
Paravirtualization (PV) is an enhancement of virtualization technology in which a guest operating system (guest OS) is modified prior to installation inside a virtual machine in order to allow all guest OS within the system to share resources and ... Continue Reading
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network virtualization
Network virtualization is a method of combining the available resources in a network to consolidate multiple physical networks, divide a network into segments or create software networks between virtual machines (VMs). Continue Reading
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IT systems management
Systems management is the administration of the information technology systems in an enterprise data center. An effective systems management plan facilitates the delivery of IT as a service (ITaaS) and allows the organization's employees to respond ... Continue Reading
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Quiz: Private cloud characteristics and strategies
Before you take the private cloud quiz, review this study guide and the lessons in our Virtualization School on private cloud computing. Continue Reading
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VDI on VMware infrastructures: The role of the connection broker
In this tip, Scott Lowe explores the connection broker and some of the functionality that brokers provide in a VDI deployment. Continue Reading
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How to use VMware Workstation
This introduction to Workstation demonstrates how to get started and use some of its capabilities, as well as comparing its features to VMware Player. Continue Reading