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 ...

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 ...

At Citrix Synergy this past May, I presented a session on best practices for using XenDesktop on vSphere. Later on, I also recorded a webinar on the topic. In one of my recommendations, I stress the ...

3PAR of Fremont, Calif., has added both bare metal provisioning and its Dynamic Optimization software, which helps align application and business requirements with data service levels on demand ...

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 ...

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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 ...