While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

Hello Guys,I have to setup two redundant DHCP servers, one is physical and second is virtual.I have to setup in such a way that if one server fail , other server will manage all the leases. My ...

Sure, server provisioning and back-up become easier in the virtual world. But monitoring, especially checking the servers’ underlying physical resources, becomes even more important. You have to ...

Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerful.

Acronis last week launched virtualization management software that allows IT managers to move a server’s data from physical to virtual servers. Acronis Full Circle is based on the company’s Fast ...

New research finds that 25% of all physical servers — and 30% of all virtual servers — are comatose. These are systems that have no activity in the last six months. The problem with comatose, or ...

Imagine that you need to add 20 new servers to your data center posthaste. Your first thought is to purchase 20 more boxes and chain them to your existing server farm, but your budget's too tight. Why ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

HP has announced software aimed at helping IT managers to manage physical and virtual servers as if they were the same. As well as this latest software, a number of other announcements were made at HP ...

Don’t let the word “virtual” in virtual servers fool you. You’re the only one who knows it’s virtual. From the perspective of the virtual server itself, the devices connected to it, applications ...