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VMware Distributed Switch Configuration Best Practices
April 3, 2026
In virtualized environments, a virtual switch is a software-based analog of physical switches. Virtual switches are used to connect virtual...
VMware Nested Virtualization Explained: Use Cases and Tutorial
April 3, 2026
The latest versions of hypervisors, including VMware hypervisors, support nested virtualization as an additional feature of hardware virtual...
VMware vSphere Resources: HotAdd/HotPlug Explained
April 3, 2026
In a VMware vSphere environment, provisioned resources may not be enough for the required performance level when you have a powerful applica...
VMware vCenter Server Licensing Options
April 3, 2026
VMware is one of the leading virtualization vendors today. The number of customers using VMware vSphere is growing every day. There are diff...
VMware Snapshot Best Practices
April 3, 2026
VMware vSphere virtual machines deliver powerful capabilities that provide agile, versatile, and efficient environments for software. One of...
VMware vCenter Installation Guide and Best Practices
April 3, 2026
VMware vCenter is an important component of the VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure, allowing you to use advanced VMware features. The mos...
VMware VSphere Integrated Containers: What, How, and Why
April 3, 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...
VMware vSphere Editions and Licensing: Which One Do You Need?
April 3, 2026
With a wide range of products to offer, VMware has become one of the dominant players in the market. VMware vSphere is considered one of the...
Free ESXi: Restrictions and Limitations
April 3, 2026
VMware is a market leader in virtualization solutions, and VMware ESXi is a renowned type 1 hypervisor. Increasingly, individual users and o...
VMware VXLAN Explained: Advantages and Implementation
April 3, 2026
Networking requirements continue to grow every year. Modern networks are expected to deliver high speed, low latency, and high scalability....
VMware Hardware Version Overview: Upgrades and Compatibility
April 3, 2026
The hardware version of a virtual machine (VM) reflects the virtual hardware features and functions that the VM supports, which in turn rela...
The Differences Between VMFS 5 vs VMFS 6 and How to Migrate
April 3, 2026
VMware VMFS is a reliable cluster file system optimized to store virtual machine files. The most recent versions of VMware VMFS – VMFS 5 and...
VMware Replication using NAKIVO Backup & Replication
April 3, 2026
VMware replication is primarily used to protect virtual machine (VM) data and restore workloads with minimal downtime after an unplanned inc...
NAKIVO at VMware Explore 2023 US: Recap
April 3, 2026
NAKIVO attended VMware Explore 2023 (known as VMworld until 2021), the IT industry’s biggest event for virtualization and multi-cloud innova...
The Differences Between iSCSI, SAS and FC Protocols
April 3, 2026
There are three main storage networking technologies used in enterprises each with its advantages and disadvantages. In this post we’ll comp...
How to Run macOS on VMware ESXi
April 3, 2026
VMware vSphere is a leading hardware virtualization platform that allows you to run virtual machines with various operating systems, includi...
How to Mount VMFS in Windows, Linux, and ESXi
April 3, 2026
Sometimes you may need to mount a VMFS datastore in Linux, Windows, or another ESXi host. VMFS is a file system created by VMware that doesn...
How to Run an Interactive ESXi Install from a USB Drive
April 3, 2026
If you need to run virtual machines on a physical server, you need to install hypervisor software first. When it comes to VMware vSphere, a...
How to Restart Management Agents on a VMware ESXi Host
April 3, 2026
VMware ESXi is a hypervisor that is part of the VMware vSphere virtualization platform. All virtualization software can have issues at some...
Locating VMware VMs by IP or MAC Address
April 3, 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...