Archive for the ‘VCritical’ Category
Monday, March 1st, 2010
I bet you never thought of Hyper-V as a tricked-out custom hypervisor — with one less layer than VMware ESX — but it is…
“Yo dawg, I heard you like Patch Tuesday, so I put Windows in your hypervisor so you can patch it while you virtualize!”
Inspired by a joke from ...
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Clearly, the capability introduced with VMware vSphere 4 that allows VMware ESX 4 to virtualize itself is a real crowd-pleaser.
However, one limitation that some have discovered while using this lab-testing technique is the lack of ability to use snapshots with virtual ESX systems. In fact, after taking a snapshot of ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Microsoft has done remarkable things with virtualization — unbelievable, some say.
One outstanding achievement is the way the Hyper-V architects managed to completely collapse the guest operating system layer directly into the hypervisor. Take a look at this diagram from a Microsoft Virtualization competitive brochure:
[Yes, it's that same brochure again.]
There are ...
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