Virtual server images are typically stored in a massive SAN (storage area network) environment, reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes in some organizations, ...

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 ...

The virtual image is simply transferred to the appropriate server. Any given server can be running a widely disparate range of applications. Server loading can thus be tightly controlled by ...

Compared to Blue Pills, simple virtual machine sprawl "is not as sexy a problem to talk about. But it's far bigger," says Skoudis. The solution, he says, isn't to shun virtualization.

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 ...

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 ...

These virtual server images can be used to provision new server instances quickly, and a growing number of software companies have even begun to offer evaluation versions of their products as ...

A virtual-server platform, such as GSX Server from VMware, lets disk images be swapped among host computers, as each virtual machine emulates the same set of virtual hardware, down to the chipset ...

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 ...

Virtualization may be the way to go for small to midsized firms. Instead of servers running at 10 percent or less capacity at certain points in the day, virtual servers can share hardware ...

Known for disaster recovery expertise, the company’s key products include vRanger Pro (backup utility), vCharter (performance management) and vReplicator(virtual server-image distribution).