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Many developers struggle with the use of 32-bit and 64-bit address spaces. In a nutshell, 32-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 64-bit address spaces and 64-bit assemblies cannot be loaded within 32-bit address spaces. Web applications are no different. As a result, special attention needs to be paid to the requirements of web applications running on 64-bit servers. Continue Reading
If you’ve worked with virtualization long enough, you may have noticed that performance can degrade over time. This phenomenon is related to disk fragmentation, particularly in scenarios where a lot of software installation, removal, and updates are performed. As you might imagine, this is the situation for many test environments and development environments. To recover lost performance capabilities, try defragmenting your virtual machines. Continue Reading
Virtualization has progressed considerably in the past few years, but graphics performance has been notoriously poor because VMs (virtual machines) have been unable to take advantage of the host’s video card. Even if your workstation has the latest from NVidia, ATI, or some other video card manufacturer, the VM has had no way of taking advantage of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) processing power or VRAM (Video RAM). There are still a handful of things you can do to optimize graphics performance (for CAD) with virtualization. Continue Reading
One of the often overlooked features of VMWare Workstation is the Virtual Disk Mapping utility. Available through the standard VMware Workstation GUI, the tool maps a Windows drive letter to a virtual disk used in a VM. Mapping a virtual disk can be done much quicker and easier than launching the VM to access the files on the virtual machine’s disks. This functionality ships with VMware Workstation for Windows; other tools are available for Linux users, but won’t be covered in this article. Continue Reading
You skipped Windows Vista, and now you really want to see if Windows 7 is worth the leap. Or maybe you may want to test SQL Server 2008 installed on Windows Server 2008 for your PDM system. For many IT professionals today, the solution of choice for these challenges is virtualization. And if VMware is your virtualization brand of choice, you’ll be glad to know that VMware Workstation 7 is available, with some new features just for those of us in the CAD and 3D arenas. Continue Reading
Virtualization has many benefits, and we at Razorleaf are big advocates of the technology. Internally, we leverage workstation virtualization products, and several of our clients make use of different server virtualization products. What about the VM player products out on the market today? Let’s take a look at the value that those products could deliver in your environment. Continue Reading
It’s not uncommon for large organizations to have embraced virtualization, both in the testing environment and for production use. Many vendors have offerings that make it easier for smaller organizations, or individuals, to take advantage of virtualization too. In fact, all the major vendors offer free or personal versions of their flagship products. And you know a software technology has gone mainstream when both Microsoft (with Hyper-V) and Oracle (with VirtualBox) have offerings in the space. Continue Reading
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