VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

To learn more about these steps, keep reading. First, you need to shut down the virtual machine if it is already running on your computer and close the VMware Player app. Then, open the folder where ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...

If I attach a physical<BR>computer onto the network and do some file-copying, everything is fast and normal. <BR><BR>So far, the only solution I have found is to use VMWARE's "shared folder" feature ...

Virtualization specialist VMware has expanded functionality of its Virtual SAN software, adding two popular data reduction methods - compression and deduplication. According to VMware, the new ...