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How to Speed Up VM Backups and Improve Performance
June 1, 2023
In 2022, it is estimated that more than half of businesses worldwide use virtualization technologies and rely on backups to protect their vi...
File Recovery from VM Backup with NAKIVO
June 1, 2023
When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally...
Configuring ESXi VM Networks
June 1, 2023
In the previous posts, we took a look at setting up VMkernel networks, including storage and vMotion. Now, we discuss configuring ESXi netwo...
An Introduction to VMware vCloud Director
June 1, 2023
VMware has always released new great virtualization software for individual users, organizations, and MSPs. VMware’s virtualization products...
How to Migrate VMware VMs to AWS: A Case Study
June 1, 2023
In 2016, our management set a goal to move all the organization’s mission-critical servers to the Amazon Web Services cloud. This was done t...
NFS vs iSCSI for Accessing VM Data
June 1, 2023
NFS vs iSCSI – which protocol should you choose for storing VMware VM files? This question usually comes up when you need to configure share...
What Is VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and How Does It Work?
June 1, 2023
VMware provides APIs to simplify data protection in enterprise virtual environments with features that enable agentless backups and improve...
VMware VM Templates A to Z
June 1, 2023
Manual deployment of many similar VMs in large virtual environments can be a boring task. VMware provides multiple methods of virtual machin...
Failover Vs Failback: Key Differences in Disaster Recovery
June 1, 2023
In the modern world, any business could suffer from corruption of data and disruption of mission-critical operations from time to time. Howe...
Virtualization Applications Are Not Working: What Do You Do?
June 1, 2023
When you install a virtualization application on a Windows machine on which Hyper-V or related services are installed, errors can often occu...
How to Convert Hyper-V to VMware VM
June 1, 2023
VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are both hardware virtualization platforms, but on some occasions, you might need to convert a Hyper-V...
What is Quiescing for VMware vSphere VMs?
June 1, 2023
When creating a snapshot in a VMware vSphere environment, there are two different methods you can follow: taking a memory state snapshot or...
How to Create a Virtual Machine Using vSphere Client 7.0
June 1, 2023
VMware released vSphere 7 in April 2020. VMware ESXi 7 and VMware vSphere Client 7 are the key components of this updated virtualization pla...
SCSI Controller and Other VMware Controller Types
June 1, 2023
Storage controllers connect disk drives to a computer. There are different standards and types of storage controllers such as IDE, SATA, and...
How to Upgrade to VMware vCenter 7 and vSAN 7
June 1, 2023
VMware's flagship virtualization product has been significantly "rearchitected" for the vSphere 7 release. If you decide to upgrade to versi...
Licensing ESXi 6.x/7.0.x and vCenter Server 6.x/7.0.x
June 1, 2023
When deploying VMware vSphere to build your virtual environment, you have a choice of vSphere and vCenter editions. vSphere, VMware's virtua...
How VMware EVC Mode Works: Complete Overview
June 1, 2023
If you are familiar with the vMotion feature, you probably remember that the recommended practice is to use the same processors on all ESXi...
What Is a VMware DRS Cluster?
June 1, 2023
A cluster is a group of hosts connected to each other with special software that makes them elements of a single system. At least two hosts...
VMware ESX vs. ESXi: Overview of Key Differences
June 1, 2023
According to the latest statistics, VMware holds more than 75% of the global server virtualization market, which makes the company the undis...
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3: An Overview of the New Features
June 1, 2023
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...