VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that its virtual machine disk format specification for defining and formatting virtual ...

If you use Hyper-V as a server virtualization platform, you might have noticed physical storage space being depleted more quickly than it should be. In this article, I am going to show you two reasons ...

It is important to note that you may want to back up your virtual hard disk file before performing these operations, as there is always a chance that something can go wrong. It is always a good ...

The LUN has long been a bedrock of storage configuration for physical servers with LUN storage partitions carved out from Raid groups to provide logical chunks of capacity for applications. Now, ...

In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...

I'm still digesting the material I got at VMworld 2010 . The show had two over-arching themes: cloud and VDI. It's not entirely surprising, as these are new segments for VMware and the larger ...