As virtualization and server consolidation continue to catch on in the data center, companies continue to search for ways to migrate their physical servers into virtual machines. Since VMware is ...

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 ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

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 ...

Converter 3 takes a snapshot of the server's operating system, application, and data, establishes it in a virtual machine on a different server, then transfers operations to the virtual machine. The ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. After a four-month beta run, VMware is preparing to ...

Recently, I had the privilege to be one of the presenters at TechMentor in Orlando. This year's TechMentor is a collection of two main categories, virtualizing and managing your IT environment. The ...

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 ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...