Memory Over Commitment is a feature that VMWare products especially its ESX and VSphere line of suites provide. This feature has become so popular and advantageous to VMWare because none of its closest competitors in virtualization infrastucture world provide it (that’s right, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Citrix Xen Server do not have this feature). Let us examine what Memory. 

If you are wanting to learn virtualization, you most probably will need a small virtualization lab set up. In most cases, to set up a virtualization lab, you would need to use additional hardware. If you want to experience baremetal virtualization with products such as VMWare vSPhere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix Xenserver you will definitely need additional hardware especially for setting. 

In this post we will explain step by step how to install the Microsoft’s free Hyper-V stand alone version. Microsoft’s free Hyper-V Server comes with only a command line interface, although you can manage it remotely using Remote Server Administration tools, if you are interested you can check out our post about how to manage Microsoft’s Free Standalone Hyper-V server. The. 

In this article we will explain how you can remotely manage a standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. The standalone Hyper-V 2008 R2 is also the free Hyper-V server which can not take any other roles and can only be the baremetal hypervisor. Also, Hyper-V 2008 R2 standalone server has no GUI and can be managed from the console using a command line interface only. If you are interested in knowing. 

VMWare workstation is the latest in VMWare’s virtualization products for the desktop. In this article we will show you how to install and configure VMWare Workstation 8 step by step. In our setup we will be installing VMWare Workstation 8 on a Windows 7 machine, we will be using the trial version of VMWare workstation 8 which you can download for free from VMWare’s website. Please.