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NAKIVO at VMware Explore 2023 US: Recap
April 28, 2026
NAKIVO attended VMware Explore 2023 (known as VMworld until 2021), the IT industry’s biggest event for virtualization and multi-cloud innova...
How to Back Up vCenter Appliance
April 28, 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 vSphere Replication Best Practices
April 28, 2026
Virtual machine replication, or VM replication, remains one of the best data protection techniques for short recovery times and system avail...
Basic PowerCLI Scripting for VMware vSphere
April 28, 2026
Previously, we looked at PowerCLI – what it is, how to install it, and integrating into Windows Powershell ISE. Now, let’s take a look at ba...
The Differences Between VMFS 5 vs VMFS 6 and How to Migrate
April 28, 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...
What’s New in VMware vSphere 8.0?
April 28, 2026
On August 30, 2022, VMware announced a new version of VMware vSphere. The VMware vSphere 8 release date for the public has not been announce...
VMware vSphere Editions and Licensing: Which One Do You Need?
April 28, 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...
VMware VXLAN Explained: Advantages and Implementation
April 28, 2026
Networking requirements continue to grow every year. Modern networks are expected to deliver high speed, low latency, and high scalability....
Using VM Performance Monitoring to Boost VM Performance
April 28, 2026
Virtualization is widely used nowadays due to the advantages for business IT infrastructures, such as scalability, cost-efficiency, and conv...
The VMware vs KVM Hypervisors Comparison
April 28, 2026
Virtualization is widely used nowadays for the advantages it delivers: effective resource usage, scalability, and convenience. Hypervisors a...
VMware vSphere Resources: HotAdd/HotPlug Explained
April 28, 2026
In a VMware vSphere environment, provisioned resources may not be enough for the required performance level when you have a powerful applica...
What is Quiescing for VMware vSphere VMs?
April 28, 2026
When creating a snapshot in a VMware vSphere environment, there are two different methods you can follow: taking a memory state snapshot or...
The Most Effective Ways to Transfer Files from a VM to a Host
April 28, 2026
Virtual machines provide many advantages, such as flexibility, rational use of resources and running in isolated environments. A common task...
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...
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...