It's a question increasingly asked these days: how does the Xen open source hypervisor compare with VMware's hypervisor, ESX Server, in terms of performance? One big reason it's asked is because of ...

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Over the past few years, virtualisation has become a viable option to thin down your datacentres in physical size, heat and cost. At its core, there are two major types of virtualisation: Type 1 and ...

When we declared VMware’s ESX virtual machine platform to be the performance winner against Micosoft’s Hyper-V. When we declared VMware’s ESX virtual machine platform to be the performance winner ...

So, which of the hypervisors is fastest, in terms of raw performance? That's what we set out to determine in the latest issue of the magazine. We could have looked at many different hypervisors, but ...

Guys I'm wanting to play around with XCP 1.1 I'm getting ready to virtualize my home lan and lab and I'm not liking the limitations on Vmware's new ESXI version 5 which is why I'm looking at other ...

Citrix XenServer is a commercial implementation of the open source Xen virtualization solution. Citrix has extended the base Xen engine with management tools and tightened up various components ...

Citrix is raising its virtualization battle with VMware to a whole other level. The company recently released the latest version of its server virtualization platform, XenServer 6.1. But instead of ...

What are your experiences using Xenconvert to migrate VMs from Vmware to Xenserver? On test runs I've noticed that it disjoins machines from the domain and puts them in an unactivated-license state.