After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Hi,<BR><BR>We have an ESX Infrastructure 3 server (purchased before they went free w/ ESXi) and are slowly rolling out our a few VM's. Thus far, we've used the ESX server for a few smaller, ...

Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores. For VMware environments, planning your storage ...

Companies today are responding to the shaky financial environment by reducing budgets and cutting costs. Meeting reduced budgets often requires reducing equipment and staffing. However, businesses ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...