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First impression of comparative tests on virtualisation technologies

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 (1 for now) on different [...]

VMWare open backup tool

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) [...]