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Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2P

Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2PAnother good company is APPISTRYWhy does everyone forget about Appistry? I think they are great, specially because they are first company to focus on being green with EnergySaver. They really have a wonderful product that is easy to use as my brother keeps telling...

Tags: V2P, V2V, P2V

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

VMware releases beta for new converter tool

VMware is releasing a beta of their P2V Physical to Virtual converter tools link via betanews. P2V lets you pull a physical server in to a virtual server and is a critical component of server virtualization.

Tags: P2V, server

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Additional Resources

Optimize Your Storage: A Blueprint for Deduplication in VMware Environments

As companies continue to investigate ways of cutting IT spending, virtualization and data deduplication are two technologies that are on the minds of all IT managers. Next-generation datacenters are likely to be virtualized to a large extent, and while P2V consolidation is an easy way of cutting IT costs, data...

Tags: Environment, Storage, VMware Inc., De-duplication, Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-10-22

VMware to step up data center automation game

ResponseThis is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.Without it, you?re not likely...

Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, VMware Inc., game, automation, provisioning, virtual server

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Windows 7's XP Virtualization: I TOLD YOU SO!

I seem to remember a year ago, I said that if I were to design Windows 7 it would have built-in virtualization to provide perfect Windows XP compatibility. Guess what? It will. It's not often that my predictions come true almost exactly the...

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, XPM, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-25

VMware wants to be your network operating system of choice

VMware wants to be your network operating system of choiceVMWare - frustratingI find as a new person to virtualization that getting my needs met is difficult for our small business. The vast array of products just confuses me as I have no way to know which way to go for...

Tags: Virtualization, NETWORKING, VMware Inc., VMware Wants, network operating system, operating system, network

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Doubletake Workload Optimization Suite

Bob Roudebush, Director Solutions Engineering for Double-Take and I had an interesting conversation about some of the issues virtual environments can create for organizations that have allowed their virtual infrastructure to grow organically without a plan. Although Double-Take isn't trying to create solutions for all of the potential issues, they...

Tags: Double-Take, Workload Management, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Enterprise Virtualization Using Microsoft Hyper-V

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this instructor-led course, you'll learn how to implement and manage Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM. You'll cover advanced topics, such as using storage virtualization, high availability, SCVMM Performance and Resource Optimization PRO, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure...

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

Training 2009-02-01

How-to: Getting started with .VHD files in Windows 7

How-to: Getting started with .VHD files in Windows 7Native or still virtual?If you use this method, is the OS being ran natively then or still in a virtual environment?More helpfull info....1. Vista/Win7 system backups are kept in VHD files, great for P2V conversions and accessing backups without going through the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), desktop virtualization, Microsoft Windows, VHD, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-01-10

Converting Linux and Windows Physical and Virtual Machines to Oracle VM Virtual Machines

Oracle VM provides functionality to allow customers to easily convert and move Linux and Windows servers to run as guest Virtual Machines VM in Oracle VM Server Pools. This paper describes the virtual machine conversion functions built into Oracle VM in Release 2.1.2, and to plan and execute the virtual...

Tags: Linux, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Oracle VM, P2V Conversion Utility, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Taking a Bott beating

Taking a Bott beatingOut-of-Band may be slower.But I find that it's much, much safer. It is my preferred method when recovering crashed Windows boxen.I've never really had to worry about anyone doing a system migration like your friend. My experience has always been more along the lines of 'My computer...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, PC Migration, Bott, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Taking a Bott beating

My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...

Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-23

The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC

The New Adventures of Christine's Old PCIts not that easyOn an ideal machine that is well organized, I would say your approach is valid. However, this machine was full of stuff in a hundred different directories and I couldn't be sure I was grabbing everything she needed with the System...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating systems, Vista PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, New Adventures, Old PC, Christine, PC, XPData, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC

Windows XP virtualized within Vista SP1 using VMWare Player. Some of you may be aware that I have another identity besides professional technologist and tech/computer industry blogger -- I'm also passionate about restaurants, cooking, and eating (albeit with a healthier focus these...

Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Computer, Christine Nunn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing

Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September.  Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...

Tags: Performance, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-24

PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0

PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Some Virtualization Announcements at TechEd

A number of suppliers are launching either new virtualization products or updates to current products at Microsoft's TechEd in Orlando, FL. Here's a quick review of a few of those products. SteelEye launched SteelEye DataKeeper for Windows. DataKeeper is a WAN-optimized data replication...

Tags: Failover, Product, Microsoft Corp., SteelEye DataKeeper, DataKeeper, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-12

The ZEN of PlateSpin

The ZEN of PlateSpinEvery Tao and XenI hope Novell fixes PlateSpin to work with Xen. I spent lots of hours and thousands of dollars trying to get P2V images to Xen. It ain't an easy task. It also rebooted a critical server after the image was unsucessfully transferred.When we contacted...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Xen

Discussion threads 2008-03-04