For VMs running on ESX and ESXi version 4, there's new functionality for creating snapshots. Generally speaking, I prefer not to have user-created VM snapshots in production-class server consolidation ...

The next step of any vSphere upgrade is to upgrade vCenter. However, if you are using vCloud Director the next step would be to upgrade vCloud Director before vCenter. It is crucial at this time to ...

I'm running 3x ESXi 4.1 hosts with shared storage on a NetApp FAS2040 over NFS. Ever since we upgraded from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1, VMs have been freezing for 10-30 seconds every time a snapshot is ...

The first part of any hypervisor upgrade is to ensure that your existing hardware is supported. Part of that determination is what firmware levels are supported for your compute devices as well as ...

No one doubts that virtualization has made managing centralized storage environments far easier than managing an equivalent mass of physical SAN-attached servers. But as businesses spin up new VMs and ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...