A company is getting ready to virtualize their Windows servers with vSphere on clustered hosts and SAN storage. If they install VMware Converter on a third machine to initiate the process, will that ...

Here’s another great product that I learned about in TechMentor NYC. I wish I had it available to me at my last corporate position. Say you have a legacy piece of software that you would love to be ...

Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. announced the release of its VMware Converter 3 migration tool that has been receiving high marks during its beta period. VMware Converter 3 automates the ...

In part one of this series, we looked at selecting an enterprise virtualization platform, and at some of the benefits gained. In part two we looked at some of the challenges involved in selecting ...

During VMworld 2008, Vizioncore showed off a preview of its advanced conversion tool, vConverter. And this week, less than two months after the show, Vizioncore is announcing the release of vConverter ...

Microsoft will release the third version of its Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) this fall and the key new feature will be the return of support for physical to virtual conversions. MVMC is ...

Physical-to-virtual conversions have a few gotchas, but they may be the best option when a proper application, data, and configuration migration isn’t possible. A colleague recently asked me if ...

Following customer complaints, Microsoft has decided to re-introduce physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversions in its System Center Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC). It was dropped from the last version, ...

Conversion applications move a working host into its new virtual environment along with its stored application images in tow. Unless VM guests are installed from ‘bare metal’ operating systems and ...

This week, I again had the opportunity to be on the Virtumania podcast with Rich Brambley, Marc Farley and a special SQL server guest, http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent ...