If you’re using Parallels virtualization tools to host an OS X virtual machine, you could find you cannot compress the virtual hard disk to reclaim unused space. We ran across the issue a few weeks ago and were rather surprised, because Parallels has a “Compress” feature that is supposed to do exactly that with your […]
HowTo: Resize Parallels Virtual Hard Disk
Uncategorized 22nd February
vSphere Backup sets new standard
Lab Tests 20th August
One of the best features in VMware’s newest set of server virtualization suite may be the new integrated Data Recovery backup tools. Unlike current third party backup offerings for VMware’s virtualization tools, the latest version of vCenter Server have built in de-duplication capabilities to reduce to the absolute minimum the amount of storage used when […]
Low cost disaster recovery for small business
News 17th August
VMware’s vision of cloud computing is one step nearer following news that USA hosting specialist iland opened a datacenter in London and launched a range of hosting offerings for virtual servers. Dante Orsini, iland’s Channel Director, told The Hypervisor iland had struck a partnership with virtualization tools specialist Vizioncore that combines Vizioncore’s vReplicator software with […]
First look review: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
Reviews 29th July
Last week Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 to manufacture. This is the free version of Microsoft’s server virtualization engine, and the same updated software is also included in Windows Server 2008 R2, which was also released to manufacturing last week. Firms could download and install as many copies of the free Hyper-V 2008 R2 […]
Hyper-V benchmark surprise
News 18th August
In head to head benchmark tests of Microsoft Hyper-V compared to VMware Workstation, The Hypervisor test results indicate virtual machine (VM) performance using Hyper-V is below that of VMware Workstation. Our tests compared the time taken to install various operating systems into VMs hosted by the two hypervisors. Thus our test results focus on the […]
Review: Vizioncore vReplicator 2.1
Reviews 15th August
Launched on September 4th, vReplicator 2.1 is the latest version of Vizioncore’s virtual machine replication suite. Previously called esxReplicator 2.0, the update is a good choice for firms that want to create and maintain replicas of their virtual machines (VMs) that are ready to run on secondary servers just in case something goes wrong with […]