Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical servers, requiring less cooling and less power while increasing flexibility. This is all good for the business and the server group, but what effect does it have on the management of the network? The truth is that it complicates network management.

This video demonstrates processes of installing and using the Hyper-V Manager from Windows 7

One of DRS's features is the ability to set separation or combination rules.

VMware engineer Michael White’s post 64 bit is almost here – are you ready? on the Uptime (VMware and Business Continuity) Blog foretells of the future 64 bit requirement of both vCenter and... This is a summary only. Visit http://vmetc.com for full content.

Great news in Atmos land! First of all – what is Atmos? Atmos may seem like something new to many, but you use Atmos-like stuff every day.  If you think about YouTube, or your Facebook pictures, or Twitpics – or the type of storage used for these new funky scale-out noSQL based applications, it ain’t your usual SAN/NAS stuff.   Those are all examples of next gen apps that leverage this class of storage platform.

Greg Ferro looks at Bisectional Bandwidth as a design technique in the data centre and why the impact of Layer 2 Multi-Pathing is a vital part of Data Centre Network Design.

The Student mustered his courage and said “Master, the other Students are mocking the Network and boasting that their’s is the most important technology”.

The explosive growth of today's virtualization management market is good news for organizations looking to manage and optimize their virtual environments. Like every technology that has come before it, the route to success with virtualization lies in solid, standardized processes and management software to automate and govern the execution of these processes. Process discipline and streamlined management automation have long been operational mandates, but the advent of virtualization on industry-standard servers exacerbates these requirements.

By Mark Wilson

A couple of years ago, I blogged about getting my Cisco 7940G IP Phone working with SIP firmware and an external VoIP provider (in my case, it was Sipgate).  I also wanted to get a couple more Cisco IP Phones working – the Cisco IP Communicator softphone and a 7911G for my wife’s business but, unlike the 7940 and 7960, these phones use a different configuration file format – an XML file that I’d never managed to get working properly. [..]

Virtualization is rarely as simple to implement and manage as it has been made out to be. Here's what to look out for when planning your organization's next virtualization project.