Virtual machine images are cloned, versioned, archived and, when in use, changed over time. The cost of physical server hardware controlled physical server sprawl somewhat, but virtual machines ...

See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one system image to the operating system or to the network administrator. See network virtualization. (4) One instance of a Web or ...

Hosting desktops as virtual images, all running simultaneously on large-scale server farms, resolves both problems by giving users their own desktops, all controlled by an industrial-strength ...

Virtual Appliances have appeared on the horizon as an unstoppable force. Where traditional appliances supplanted the office and data centre server, the virtual appliance has taken this to a new ...

Assuming you perform a virtual server image backup weekly to a remote disaster recovery site, and run a differential backup during the week, all you need to do is run a restore of the latest ...

It would be a great deal easier to create a standard server image on the virtual machine's hardware and only have to worry about driver issues when installing a new physical server. The ...

tricks like splitting a single physical server into an entire team of virtual server "images," or creating virtual machines in a blink and recycling their resources when they're no longer needed.

virtual-machine images are old hat. But for the small and mid-sized business (SMB) market, it's a relatively new technique. Virtual servers let a single box run several different virtual machines ...

Virtual machines are usually instantiated from an operating system and application “image” that is stored in a SAN or NAS. There are two ways to create these images: Either a physical server ...

Once you've done this, the administrator can copy Virtual Server images to Rachael's and Steve's folders and add the virtual machines using the VSA Web site. Rachael and Steve will have limited access ...