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How to Expand Disk Partitions in Linux VMs

April 17, 2026
Insufficient virtual disk space can lead to issues, including poor performance. For example, you set up a virtual disk, create partitions, a...

How to Extend Windows VM Partitions

April 17, 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 Fix VMware vCenter Installation Issues

April 17, 2026
Installing vCenter Server is essential for any VMware virtual environment with multiple ESXi hosts for centralized management. A VMware home...

How to Create a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Client 7.0

April 16, 2026
VMware released vSphere 7 in April 2020. VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vSphere Client 7 are the key components of this updated virtualization pla...

How to Create a vSan Cluster: Configuration Guide

April 16, 2026
In the previous post, we’ve compared shared storage approaches. Now we’ll take a closer look at how to configure vSAN cluster. Host Requi...

How to Create and Set Up VMware vSphere Host Profiles

April 16, 2026
A standardized configuration of ESXi hosts in an organization makes troubleshooting easier, as an inconsistent configuration of VMware ESXi...

How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM

April 15, 2026
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are both hardware virtualization platforms, but on some occasions, you might need to convert a Hyper-V...

How to Convert VHD to VMDK: A Step-By-Step Guide

April 15, 2026
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are two of the most popular virtualization platforms. Each solution uses different virtual disk file fo...

How to Convert a Physical Linux Server to a VMware VM: Comprehensive Walkthrough

April 14, 2026
Running servers on virtual machines provides you with a list of advantages such as scalability, rational resource usage, high availability,...

How to Configure HA in VMware vSphere

April 14, 2026
When you have critical virtual machines and critical services running on them, their availability must be ensured during your organization’s...

How to Configure VMware Log Location on ESXi

April 14, 2026
VMware ESXi is a hypervisor that similarly, to other operating systems and software products, writes log files. We have covered the most use...

How to Configure a vSphere SSO Domain in vCenter

April 10, 2026
A key part of vSphere infrastructure administration is being able to assign roles and permissions for vSphere resources. Managing logins and...

How to Configure an ESXi vMotion Network

April 10, 2026
The vMotion feature in VMware vSphere enables the live migration of running virtual machines over the network between ESXi hosts without any...

How to Configure DRS in VMware vSphere: A Step-by-Step Guide

April 10, 2026
One of the key advantages with the VMware cluster configuration is efficient resource management. The vSphere cluster technology that makes...

How to Clone Virtual Machines on ESXi Hosts: 5 Methods

April 10, 2026
Virtualization allows for more efficient workflows and resource utilization thanks to features like VM templates or VM cloning, which allows...

How to Build a vSphere 7.0 Home Lab: Complete Walkthrough

April 9, 2026
Following the recent release of VMware vSphere 7, many of us are looking forward to trying vSphere 7 and checking how the new and updated fe...

How to Back Up vCenter Appliance

April 9, 2026
Starting with vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5, a VMware native backup ability was added in the appliance VAMI interface to create backup...

VMware Backup Guide: Methods and Best Practices

April 9, 2026
Backup remains the best approach to data protection for physical and virtual machines, even in the face of new threats to data integrity and...

How to Add a Virtual Floppy Drive to Virtual Machines in VMware vSphere

April 7, 2026
While physical floppy drives have been obsolete for almost two decades, virtual floppy drives are very much alive and have proved to be a us...

Understanding I/O Filters in VMware vSphere Environments

April 7, 2026
VMware vSphere offers a wide range of storage-related features for virtual machines. In addition to VMware vSAN and Virtual Volumes, VMware...