Administration Category
How to Expand Disk Partitions in Linux VMs
April 28, 2026
Insufficient virtual disk space can lead to issues, including poor performance. For example, you set up a virtual disk, create partitions, a...
vSphere 7.0 Update 2 - Key Improvements and New Features
April 28, 2026
vSphere 7.0 Update 2 is a new release from VMware vSphere. Since the release of VMware vSphere 7.0 in April 2020, VMware moved vSphere to a...
Locating VMware VMs by IP or MAC Address
April 28, 2026
In a large VMware vSphere infrastructure, you may only know a VM's IP address and need the name or vice versa. For example, you may have the...
How to Perform P2V and V2V Migration with VMware Converter
April 28, 2026
Creating and configuring a new virtual machine from scratch can be time-consuming, especially when migrating existing workloads. Instead of...
How to Install and Run ESXi from a USB Flash Drive
April 28, 2026
VMware ESXi can be booted and run from a USB flash drive or SD card, allowing administrators to reserve local storage for virtual machines....
Top VMware Tools to Simplify Daily Administrative Tasks
April 28, 2026
Installing even a couple of effective tools and utilities can greatly help you in administrating your VMware-based infrastructure. Quite a l...
VMware VSphere Integrated Containers: What, How, and Why
April 28, 2026
In recent years, containers have begun to receive a lot of attention in the IT industry. This is mainly due to the various benefits that the...
How to Copy Files to Hyper-V Server and VMs: 7 Methods
April 28, 2026
Hyper-V is a hypervisor, which runs on Windows, and can be managed directly on the machine where it is installed as well as remotely. Often,...
What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup
April 28, 2026
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...
NAKIVO Solution Licensing and Renewal Guide
April 28, 2026
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a flexible licensing model that includes perpetual and subscription-based types and five editions. Addi...
How to Extend Windows VM Partitions
April 28, 2026
When a virtual disk on a virtual machine is full, you need to increase the virtual disk size. However, partitions located on the virtual dis...
How to Work with Hyper-V VHD and VHDX Files: Essential Basics
April 28, 2026
The release of Windows Server 2012 was warmly welcomed due to the introduction of multiple virtualization features, including the new VHDX f...
Hyper-V Network Adapters: What, Why, and How
April 28, 2026
The previous blog post covered how to create a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM). However, creating a Hyper-V VM is merely the first step of buil...
How to Convert a Physical Machine to Hyper-V VM
April 28, 2026
Virtualization provides an expansive list of advantages including easy migration, rational consumption of resources, scalability, etc. For t...
What Is VMware vSwitch?
April 28, 2026
Virtual machines connect to a network much in the same way physical ones do. The difference is that the VMs use virtual network adapters and...
Difference Between Single Tenant and Multi Tenant in AWS
April 28, 2026
There are different approaches to deploying software for multiple users in large organizations and public clouds. Selecting the approach or...
What Is a VMware DRS Cluster?
April 28, 2026
A cluster is a group of hosts connected to each other with special software that makes them elements of a single system. At least two hosts...
Thick and Thin Provisioning: What Is the Difference?
April 28, 2026
In this article, we are going to consider the storage pre-allocation aspect of virtual disk settings in detail and find out what thick and t...
GFS Backup Retention Policy Explained
April 28, 2026
Ideally, the goal of backup is the ability to recover data from any point back in time. The straightforward way to do that is to keep period...
VMware vSphere Roles and Permissions
April 28, 2026
The assigning of VMware vSphere permissions in vCenter is tied to the role a user is paired to. A role is a predefined set of privileges. Th...