Brien walks through the steps of troubleshooting a (very) slow Windows 10 virtual machine. Hint: Disable your virtual memory at your own risk. The minimum hardware requirements for running Windows 10 ...

Setting up Proxmox Linux containers (LXC) and virtual machines (VMs) is what makes this hypervisor an invaluable tool for home labs. It's powerful, light, and fast, but there are a few tweaks one can ...

When it comes to making virtual server farms easier to manage, the SAN is the great enabler. But when it comes to maximizing virtual server performance, the SAN is the great bottleneck. A single host ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

This white paper discusses the growing challenge of optimizing application performance in VMware. Traditional monitoring tools fall short with threshold-setting, alert storms, and complex dashboards ...

Microsoft Windows performance tips that improve speed and stability using built-in tools, smart settings, and simple habits for smoother Windows 10 and 11 use.

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...

In our tests, the performance hit when we moved from a native operating system instance to a virtualized one with a single vCPU allotted, ranged from about 2.5% when ESX was running Windows 2008 to ...