Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Mac OS X only: VMware releases a new beta of Fusion 2.0, the virtual machine software for Mac. We were impressed with our test drive of beta 1, and beta 2 adds a few more promising features, like: ...