I have an ESXi 5.5 host running 47 nearly identical VMs, each configured with 6 GB RAM. When I look at the 'Resources' section of the host's summary page, its memory usage is 271 GB (out of a total of ...

I've been making more and more use of VMs as part of the migration process for my old CMS to a new environment. Here's one story where a virtual machine made life a lot easier. I had two virtual ...

I'm struggling with the rationale behind this one, specifically in a VMware context with a guest VM running Server 2012 R2 & MS SQL Server 2012. According to this best practices guide (page 36): ...

We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over.

VMware, whose software lets a single workstation run multiple operating systems, has begun testing a version of software that uses memory more efficiently. The number of independent operating systems ...

If while starting a Hyper-V virtual machine on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 host computer, but you receive the Hyper-V error message Could not initialize memory: Ran ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, today announced that VMware vSAN™ 6.7 certification has been earned for ...

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