VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Google LLC and VMware Inc. Thursday announced a preview release of a new plugin for VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator tool. In addition they announced support for Google Cloud Platform resources in ...

DynamicOps’ Virtual Resource Management (VRM) tool is more of a provisioning tool for deploying and controlling access to virtual machines, and is less effective when it comes to the subsequent ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition’s thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Thin-provisioning, a great feature for virtual machines, uses the disk space required instead of what is allocated. I frequently refer to the Windows pie graph that displays used and free space as a ...

Goal: Provision and config bootstrap infra (DNS/DHCP/ESXi/vCenter, trueNAS for iscsi datastores) nested within workstation/fusion for lab work. Ideally so i can setup and blow away to try out new ...

Enterprise IT automation solution provider Puppet Labs will announce version 2.0 of its flagship Puppet Enterprise product at its PuppetConf event today. Most notably, the version brings support for ...

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in ...

The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs and researches and tests enterprise-level hardware and virtual/cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning ...