Virtualization

If you want to monitor the state of your VMWare ESXi servers in your monitoring system, you must configure SNMP agent on your hosts. In this article we’ll show how…

When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…

On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting from ESXi 4.1.

When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…

In this article we’ll talk about how to resize KVM virtual machine disks for popular disk types. We’ll show how to correctly increase a virtual machine disk size in the…

VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a free, powerful and reliable hardware hypervisor for server and workstation virtualization. The article tells how to install and configure free VMware Hypervisor (ESXi), create a…

Windows Hyper-V Server is a free hypervisor platform by Microsoft to run virtual machines. In this article, we’ll look on how to install and configure the latest version of Windows…

I came across an interesting issue when trying to install Linux CentOS on a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server (the type of the virtual machine was “Generation 2”…

From time to time in the vSphere Client interface I come across the notification: Your password will expire in xx days. I decided to learn how to manage password policies…

If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped to respond and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V console, the only way…