Tag Archives: vmware

First impression of comparative tests on virtualisation technologies

| Friday, 26 February, 2010

update 16 March: fixed the hardware specs I’m working on doing some tests to compare different virtualisation technologies. Whilst those tests are far from finished, I got some numbers this afternoon who give a quick first impression. What is being tested here? Running some specific processes Timing how long they run On a virtual guest […]

VMWare open backup tool

| Tuesday, 22 December, 2009

I’ve been looking for several backup solutions for VMWare lately, which is quite a depressing task, imho. Being a proprietary tool, VMWare has a problem in common with Windows: it’s full off proprietary API’s you have to go through to be able to pull a backup. Also, whilst VMWare (ESX, but in practice also ESXi) […]