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Cloud Infrastructure Updates in Microsoft Build 2024: Introducing Cobalt 100-Based VMs and Copilot Access in Azure

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Cloud Infrastructure Updates in Microsoft Build 2024: Introducing Cobalt 100-Based VMs and Copilot Access in Azure

Microsoft Teams’ customer conversation platform, IC3, is implementing Cobalt to better serve its expanding customer base. This move is expected to result in up to a 45% improvement in performance on Cobalt 100 virtual machines. Alongside this, Microsoft has introduced AMD’s ND MI300X series of processors for its Azure virtual machines. The ND MI300X virtual … Read more

Migrate VMware virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 with the AWS Application Migration Service Replication Agent | Amazon Web Services

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Migrate VMware virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 with the AWS Application Migration Service Replication Agent | Amazon Web Services

Introduction In this blog post, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of completing VMware virtual machine (VM) migrations to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using the (Application Migration Service). Moreover, we will show how to apply a custom post-launch action script to remove proprietary VMware tools from the migrated VMs. Migrating on-premises … Read more

VMware patches critical flaws that could allow attackers to escape VMs

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VMware patches critical flaws that could allow attackers to escape VMs

VMware has released fixes for several flaws that together could allow attackers to execute malicious code on the host system from inside a virtual machine, bypassing the critical isolation layer. Some of the flaws are in the virtualized USB controllers, so they impact most VMware hypervisors: VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and VMware Cloud … Read more

Performance of VMware Workstation 17 VMs on a SimplyNUC Mini-PC — Virtualization Review

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Performance of VMware Workstation 17 VMs on a SimplyNUC Mini-PC — Virtualization Review

In-Depth Performance of VMware Workstation 17 VMs on a SimplyNUC Mini-PC In this series of articles, I looked at SimplyNUC’s latest AMD-powered mini-PC, the Moonstone. I found that it was a very powerful and well-built 4-inch x 4-inch PC with outstanding performance capabilities. I also looked at VMware Workstation 17 and some of its capabilities. … Read more

Microsoft releases fix for ESXi host VMs in Windows Server

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Microsoft releases fix for ESXi host VMs in Windows Server

Something likely to be absent from Microsoft’s Ignite event is talk of a fix rolled out to deal with malfunctioning Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machines following a problematic update from the company. The culprit was the KB5031364 October update, which contained a variety of fixes and updates for Windows Server 2022, from changing the spelling … Read more

Microsoft fixes Windows Server VMs broken by October updates

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Microsoft fixes Windows Server VMs broken by October updates

Microsoft fixed a known issue causing blue screens and boot failures in Windows Server 2022 virtual machines (VMs) deployed on VMware ESXi hosts. Windows admins first reported experiencing VM start issues [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] after deploying last month’s KB5031364 cumulative update. The company confirmed the issue days later, saying it only affects guest VMs on VMware … Read more

Microsoft shares temp fix for broken Windows Server 2022 VMs

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Microsoft shares temp fix for broken Windows Server 2022 VMs

Microsoft publicly acknowledged a known issue causing Windows Server 2022 virtual machine (VM) blue screens and boot failures on VMware ESXi hosts. Windows admins reported experiencing VM start failures [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] after installing the KB5031364 October 2023 cumulative update. Now, Redmond has confirmed these ongoing issues, saying that they affect only VMware … Read more

Pure Storage adds cloud disaster recovery SaaS for VMs | TechTarget

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Pure Storage adds cloud disaster recovery SaaS for VMs | TechTarget

Flash memory specialist Pure Storage is wading into the disaster recovery business for virtual machine workloads to complement the company’s container protection suite, Portworx. Pure Protect DRaaS is the vendor’s new disaster recovery-as-a-service offering enabling enterprises to replicate on-premises VMware vSphere VMs to the cloud as EC2 instances in AWS. Customers can then convert … Read more

How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs — Virtualization Review

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How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs — Virtualization Review

How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs In my series of articles on using VMware Workstation on an Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition PC (starting here), I configured a half dozen or so virtual machines (VMs) as thin clients so I could use them for demonstrations and testing. It worked fine, but recently, Windows 11 … Read more

Virtualizing Security: The Key Steps to Keeping Your VMs Safe

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Virtualizing security is a critical aspect of ensuring the safety and protection of virtual machines (VMs) in business environments. With the increasing adoption of virtualization technology, enterprises must be proactive in implementing measures to secure their VMs. Virtualization security helps protect sensitive information, prevent system breaches, and ensure regulatory compliance. Here are the key steps … Read more