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How to Add a Virtual Floppy Drive to Virtual Machines in VMware vSphere
April 28, 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...
VMware Nested Virtualization Explained: Use Cases and Tutorial
April 28, 2026
The latest versions of hypervisors, including VMware hypervisors, support nested virtualization as an additional feature of hardware virtual...
VMware Remote Console: How to Install on Windows and Linux
April 28, 2026
VMware provides several ways to manage virtual machines and guest operating systems running on the VMs. In newer vSphere versions, you can u...
What Is VMFS? VMware File System Overview
April 28, 2026
VMware vSphere is the most commonly deployed virtualization platform for data centers. It provides a wide range of enterprise features to ru...
NFS vs iSCSI for Accessing VM Data
April 28, 2026
NFS vs iSCSI – which protocol should you choose for storing VMware VM files? This question usually comes up when you need to configure share...
VMware vSphere HA and DRS Compared and Explained
April 28, 2026
A VMware hypervisor allows you to run virtual machines on a single server. You can run multiple virtual machines on a standalone ESXi host a...
How to Restart Management Agents on a VMware ESXi Host
April 28, 2026
VMware ESXi is a hypervisor that is part of the VMware vSphere virtualization platform. All virtualization software can have issues at some...
A Guide to ESXi SNMP Configuration for ESXi Monitoring
April 28, 2026
Infrastructure monitoring is important for organizations because monitoring allows you to detect issues in time and prevent failures. If a f...
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3: An Overview of the New Features
April 28, 2026
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 is the latest vSphere version at the moment of writing this blog post, and it provides a set of new features and...
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...
SCSI Controller and Other VMware Controller Types
April 28, 2026
Storage controllers connect disk drives to a computer. There are different standards and types of storage controllers such as IDE, SATA, and...
How to Create and Set Up VMware vSphere Host Profiles
April 28, 2026
A standardized configuration of ESXi hosts in an organization makes troubleshooting easier, as an inconsistent configuration of VMware ESXi...
Fix VMware Error: Virtual Machine Disks Consolidation Needed
April 28, 2026
The VMware virtual machine disks consolidation is needed error usually appears when snapshots fail to merge correctly with the main virtual...
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Best Practices
April 28, 2026
At small companies with few servers and workstations, system administrators can usually quickly identify any issues that occur without any s...
VMware vCenter Server Licensing Options
April 28, 2026
VMware is one of the leading virtualization vendors today. The number of customers using VMware vSphere is growing every day. There are diff...
Licensing ESXi 6.x/7.0.x and vCenter Server 6.x/7.0.x
April 28, 2026
When deploying VMware vSphere to build your virtual environment, you have a choice of vSphere and vCenter editions. vSphere, VMware's virtua...
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...
Virtualization Applications Are Not Working: What Do You Do?
April 28, 2026
When you install a virtualization application on a Windows machine on which Hyper-V or related services are installed, errors can often occu...
A Full Overview of VMware Virtual Machine Performance Problems
April 28, 2026
Hardware and software issues sometimes lead to poor VM performance. This may diminish the convenience and agility of your virtual environmen...