Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

I just read a press release that indicates that the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has accepted a new format for portable virtual machine files that was submitted by Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft ...

VirtualBox is surprisingly easy to use for creating an OS-inside-an-OS, unless you have to move or back up your huge VDI machine files. You can avoid non-starting machines, however, with an XML file ...

So as a poor man's backup for our VM's, I have a scheduled task that robocopies some of our VM's to a separate share. These are VMware Server 1.06 VM's.<BR><BR>I know Robocopy normally does delta ...

You should never have the host based AV scaning the virtual machines files, EVER. Run AV in the guest if it's required, and exlclude the folders where the VM files are stored on the host.