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When enterprises consolidate workloads onto hyper-converged infrastructure like Sangfor HCI, the backup strategy has to change with them....

Protecting a VMware vSphere environment well means keeping the resource overhead low while the data stays intact and recovery stays quick....

ZStack and VMware both run enterprise workloads in virtualized environments, but they come from different philosophies and ecosystems.

For enterprise VMware environments, the backup method that keeps downtime lowest is agentless, image-based backup through native APIs such...

In oVirt environments, the backup method that keeps downtime lowest is agentless, image-based backup with Changed Block Tracking (CBT),...

Virtual machines are the engine room of a modern IT environment. On VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox or any other hypervisor, they run the...

VMware HotAdd, also called Hot Plug, lets an administrator add virtual hardware such as CPU, memory and some disks to a running virtual...

A vSphere resource pool is a logical container for organizing and allocating CPU and memory among the virtual machines in a cluster. It...

vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) is a lifecycle management service built into vCenter Server that simplifies patching, upgrading and...

VMware VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network) is an overlay network technology that extends Layer 2 networks across Layer 3...

A VMware vSwitch is a virtual switch that runs in software inside an ESXi host. It lets virtual machines talk to each other and connects...

vSphere High Availability (HA) is a cluster-level feature that reduces downtime by automatically restarting virtual machines when a host...

VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution built directly into the ESXi hypervisor. It combines the local storage devices of...

The VMX file is the main configuration file of a virtual machine in VMware environments. It sits in the VM's folder on the datastore and...

VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a high-performance clustered file system built for VMware virtual environments. It lets multiple...

A slow VMware virtual machine is usually held back by a storage bottleneck, too little memory, or unnecessary system overhead. Fixing...

The “Not enough physical memory to power on this virtual machine” error usually appears when VMware cannot reserve the amount of RAM...

A VMware MF file, or Manifest File, is a checksum reference file created when you export a virtual machine as an OVF or OVA package. It...

A snapshot captures the exact state of a virtual machine at a given moment, including its disk data, configuration and memory state. When...

Increasing a VMware virtual machine's disk size takes two steps: expanding the virtual disk at the hypervisor level, then extending the...

Automatic failover in VMware environments is usually done with vSphere High Availability (HA). HA monitors the hosts and virtual machines...

After the licensing and product changes in the VMware ecosystem, many organizations are looking at alternatives to ESXi for server...

Proxmox Virtual Environment and VMware ESXi are both capable virtualization platforms, but they differ considerably in architecture,...

A snapshot in vCenter captures the complete state of a virtual machine at a point in time, including disk, memory, and configuration...

VDI, VHD and VMDK are three widely used virtual disk formats, each built for a different virtualization ecosystem. All three act as...

VDI, VHD and VMDK are virtual disk formats used by different virtualization platforms, and each stores the complete contents of a virtual...

Keeping an XCP-ng environment running through an incident takes more than basic VM management. You need backup, recovery and disaster...

How you transfer files between a virtual machine and a local computer, or between two virtual machines, depends mostly on the hypervisor...

To move from VMware to OpenStack without disrupting production, use an agentless, automated migration framework. It discovers workloads,...

Enterprise backup vendors partner on OpenStack data protection so they can add cloud native, OpenStack aware backup to their established...

Recent VMware license changes ended perpetual licensing, made subscriptions mandatory, raised the minimum to 72 cores per deployment and...

A smooth VMware migration comes down to knowing the VMware migration types, exporting and converting VM formats correctly, mapping...

A successful VMware to OpenStack migration needs a structured assessment, workload classification, dependency mapping, data protection...

Once you look past the conference energy, the useful part is what practitioners say after running this in production. A few patterns stand...

There is no single "best" migration path yet, but teams that are actually doing the work keep arriving at the same patterns.

Migration used to be manual, dependent on a few experts and slow. That is the model being replaced.

To protect Kubernetes applications on VMware Tanzu, you need application-aware backup that captures Kubernetes resources, persistent...

OpenShift Virtualization solves one problem and creates another. The platform gets simpler while protecting it gets harder.

Infrastructure teams are carrying a strange tension right now, and performance, uptime and features have little to do with it. It's about...

Beim Sichern von VMware Virtual Machines legen Sie Kopien der VMs an einem sicheren Ort ab, damit Daten und geschäftskritische Anwendungen...