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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • January 16, 2025

Improve Server Consolidation with VMware vSphere 8 U3 Memory Tiering Feature

Did you know you can double your VM density while keeping performance steady? With VMware vSphere8 U3’s Memory Tiering, you get smarter memory usage and reduced TCO. Discover all the details and performance benchmarks. 
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • February 27, 2024

Why You Should Consider XCP-ng as an Alternative to VMware

Considering a switch from VMware? Whether you’re a small business tightening the budget or an enterprise seeking greater flexibility, XCP-ng, an open-source XenServer-based virtualization platform, offers a compelling alternative to VMware.
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Diana Abo Harmouch
  • Diana Abo-Harmouch
  • October 10, 2023

What is V2V (Virtual to Virtual)?

V2V in Focus: What’s virtual-to-virtual migration all about? Learn what V2V is, why it matters, and how it works. Check out reasons for migration, hot vs. cold migration, and tools like StarWind V2V Converter.
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Alex Khorolets
  • Alex Khorolets
  • April 6, 2023

How to convert VMware VM to KVM

VMware vSphere and various KVM hypervisor flavors are both popular virtualization platforms. However, their VM formats are incompatible, and users often look for an easy way to migrate a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another.
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Alex Bykovskyi
  • Alex Bykovskyi
  • November 13, 2018

StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!

One, two, three … Let’s roll! StarWind presents an updated functionality of V2V Converter. The utility enables conversion of a physical machine into a virtual one (P2V) and other way around. For example, you have a server with Windows Server 2012R2 installed running some critical application. With physical-to-virtual (P2V) entire host or specific physical drive (or volume) can be migrated. What else? The pressure is on! Now your VMs can be migrated directly between Hyper-V and ESXi (and backwards). Moreover, StarWind V2V Converter offers bi-directional conversion between all the major VM formats: VMDK, VHD/VHDX (Windows Repair Mode aware), QCOW2, and StarWind native IMG.
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Askar Kopbayev
  • Askar Kopbayev
  • March 27, 2017

Virtual workload migration with VMware

It is quite surprising how many companies migrate virtual workload nowadays. There could be different reasons – expiring contract with the service provider, move to the new office, consolidation of resources to minimize Capex and Opex, but in every case, companies need efficient and flexible V2V migration solution. Very often people think of migration in terms of moving data from one place to another. However, migration is much more than that. For instance, you would probably want VMs to keep the same IP addresses after the migration. Which means you need to consider stretching VLANs between the source and target locations in case you cannot migrate all VMs in particular subnet in one go. You must plan a network cutover too.
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