Virtualization

When people talk about Virtualization, they are most of the time referring to either Machine Virtualization, or Application Virtualization. When You Virtualize an application, you isolate the application to run it its own little world, sometimes called a Sand Box. By doing this you can get around application compatibility issues, and simplify application deployment. These …

Disaster recovery can be a difficult thing to plan for. You back up your systems; perhaps you replicate your data to an off-site facility; maybe you even build all redundant systems. After doing all of these things, what is your goal? It is to get your systems back up and running after some sort of …

As you may have noticed there are a lot of virtualization products in the market. Some of the better known products are from Parallels, Oracle, VMWare, and Microsoft. Each company has products with different strengths and weaknesses. In this article I will try to go over some of the products available from each vendor and …

Virtual Box is a very simple virtual machine package which can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Solaris. It is open source, so you can compile it to run on other systems as well. In this tutorial, I will cover how to install virtual box and install your first virtual machine. The process of …

When selecting you hardware, there are many factors to consider; How many Virtual Machines do you want to run at a time? How busy will these Virtual Machines be? If you are getting ready to P2V a bunch of virtual machines, then you should use Perfmon (In a Windows Environment) to take a benchmark before …

Portability of Software is the ability to run the same software on a number of different systems.  One of the goals of many software developers are to be able to write the application once, and run it on as many platforms as possible.  A similar goal of Systems administrators is to ensure you can run …

KVM Stands for Kernel Virtual Machine. KVM is a virtualization technology built into the Linux Kernel based on QEMU (Quick Emulator) and is used for server virtualization. QEMU allows for virtualizing hardware, all the way from a complete hardware stack to a single device. KVM basically takes QEMU and allows it to use hardware extensions …

When you think of the beginning of Server Virtualization, companies like VMWare may come to mind. The thing you may not realize is Server Virtualization actually started back in the early 1960s and was pioneered by companies like General Electric (GE), Bell Labs, and International Business Machines (IBM). The Invention of the Virtual Machine In …

This article is content I migrated from a previous site I had created. The information may be a bit out of date In this video I explain where to get Citrix Xenserver and how to install it. I use a Virtualbox Virtual Machine in my demonstration, however you would not want to run Xenserver in …