Gabrie van Zanten is a virtualization consultant and runs the VMware blog at GabesVirtualWorld.com. Wouldn't it be nice to go back in time when something goes wrong? IT staff in virtual environments ...

Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

How to create a new AMI from a snapshot and launch a new VM Your email has been sent AWS jargon Examine the original EC2 machine. Take a snapshot and make a new AMI Launch a new instance Clean up Nick ...

Having a virtual machine on-hand can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as testing software or tweaks in a sandboxed environment that is separate from your primary operating system. A virtual ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

How to create a virtual machine for Windows 11 using VMware Workstation Player 17 Your email has been sent Windows 11 is a tricky operating system to run as a virtual machine. That’s because it has a ...

At the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in February, VMware announced vSphere 6.0. vSphere was an evolutionary release for VMware, with one major exception: It included Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), a ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

At the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in February, VMware announced vSphere 6.0. vSphere was an evolutionary release for VMware, with one major exception: It included Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), a ...