As most of us know, today's home labs, and even a number of corporate labs, are pulled together with whatever parts users can get their hands on and/or recycled hand-me-downs. Typically this is the ...

One of the best parts of my home lab isn't even physically in my home. I know, scary thoughts, but no rules are saying that you can't do this, and when the part in question is a cheap virtual private ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

I'm looking to set up a system that I can run VMWare Workstation on for a virtual test lab. I only will need to run 3-4 servers at a time on it usually. Can't get much money from the boss for it.

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...