virtualization

Virtualization has become an essential part of modern IT infrastructures, enabling businesses to maximize their resources and streamline operations. However, the success of any virtualization initiative hinges on one critical factor: choosing the right hardware. When it comes to virtualization, not all hardware is created equal. The compatibility of your processor, motherboard, and storage controller […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses face increasing demands for efficiency, scalability, and cost control in their IT environments. Server virtualization has emerged as a transformative solution, allowing organizations to optimize their hardware, reduce operational costs, and enhance agility. Did you know that over 90% of enterprises now rely on virtualization technology to streamline their

Planning for disaster recovery is essential in today’s digital landscape, where unexpected events—ranging from cyberattacks to natural disasters—can disrupt business operations in an instant. While traditional disaster recovery strategies like data backups and off-site replication remain valuable, they often fall short when it comes to agility, scalability, and minimizing downtime. This is where virtualization emerges

Software portability is the cornerstone of modern application delivery, allowing organizations to run applications seamlessly across diverse systems and environments. Developers aim to write applications once and deploy them on any platform without modification, while system administrators strive to minimize conflicts and ensure smooth execution regardless of the underlying infrastructure. In today’s technology landscape, software

This is content I migrated from a previous website, so some of the information is a little out of date. But the overall processes should still be the same. Virtual Box is a very simple virtual machine package which can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Solaris. It is open source, so you can

Sometimes virtual machines within your VMWare environment may show up as invalid. The machine is in-fact still running at this point; but you are unable to manage the invalid virtual machine(s). This can happen for a few reasons, but in my experience the most common cause is when the esx host is unable to access

Ensuring your Puppet Agent is installed on all machines in your environment can be a challenging task.  Today I will share a tip on how you can ensure that the puppet agent us automatically deployed to all of your new virtual machines. Explanation When you deploy a VMWare template, you have the option to create

KVM Stands for Kernel Virtual Machine. KVM is a virtualization technology built into the Linux Kernel based on QEMU (Quick Emulator) and is used for server virtualization. QEMU allows for virtualizing hardware, all the way from a complete hardware stack to a single device. KVM basically takes QEMU and allows it to use hardware extensions

Vagrant is a tool made by Hashicorp for provisioning and de-provisioning virtual machines and groups of virtual machines. Frequently Vagrant is used for brining up test machines on your local computer. But, sometimes you want to run your virtual machines in your data center. In this article, I will describe how to use Vagrant with