Category: VMware Administration and Backup

Backup is one of the most important actions for continuous operation of any IT infrastructure. Running servers as virtual machines (VMs) on ESXi hosts in vSphere provides you greater advantages when b ...

If you are familiar with the vMotion feature, you probably remember that the recommended practice is to use the same processors on all ESXi servers for VM live migration. If you want to use servers wi ...

VMware provides a powerful and convenient graphical interface for managing ESXi servers – you can use a VMware vSphere Client that is a standalone application on Windows machines for managing ESXi h ...

VMware Workstation is a great virtualization product that allows you to run multiple virtual machines on Linux and Windows operating systems installed on physical computers. When multiple users need t ...

Many of us know that ESXi can be installed not only from a CD disc, but also from a bootable USB flash drive. What’s more, a USB flash drive can be used not only as installation media – ESXi can a ...

Sometimes a VM cannot be started, however you may need to access the data stored on a virtual disk used by a VM. This situation can happen after the unsuccessful installation of some applications, upd ...

Any user who installs the ESXi hypervisor must set the root password, but users and administrators cannot change the ESXi default password if it gets forgotten/lost. This approach may not be the best ...

VMware is one of the leaders in the market of virtualization solutions and its products are greatly respected by a high number of users and customers. On top of enterprise grade VMware vSphere product ...

The previous blog post of our VirtualBox series covered VirtualBox update. After updating VirtualBox, it is recommended to update VirtualBox Extension Pack on a host machine and VirtualBox Guest Addi ...

Virtualization has made revolutionary changes in the way datacenters are built. The majority of modern datacenters use hardware virtualization and deploy physical servers as hypervisors to run virtual ...