A fundamental part of protecting IT is ensuring that the services provided by virtual machines are resilient and robust at all levels of the compute stack, from hardware through to the application.

A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

I believe that a snapshot of a vmware virtual machine on esxi 5.x (and probably 4.x as well) can only grow as big as the original virtual machine, whereas my colleagues think they can grow bigger.

In vSphere 5, VMware is moving from a licensing model that's based on the number of server cores to one that's based on the amount of vRAM, or memory that customers allocate to virtual machines on the ...

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While nesting a VMware ESXi hypervisor inside another VMware product like Workstation, Fusion, or vSphere may be possible, doing so in a production environment probably isn’t the best solution (that’s ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

New versions of VMware’s core management software including vSphere, Virtual SAN and the vRealize Suite expand support for application containers and make it easier for customers to manage workloads ...

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...