Virtualization

I wanted to install a VMWare ESXi in a Hyper-V virtual machine running on Windows 10 for my homelab stand. Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi support nested virtualization so this scenario…

I have noticed an annoying feature in the VMWare Workstation hypervisor. If you don’t use a virtual machine for some time, it is automatically suspended by the built-in Auto-Suspend feature.…

In Hyper-V, you can configure automatic startup and shutdown options for your virtual machines when you boot or restart your host OS. In this article, we’ll show how to configure…

My task is to create multiple internal IP subnets and configure routing between them on my standalone Hyper-V stand. By default, Hyper-V doesn’t route traffic between networks on virtual switches.…

Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…

In this article we’ll show a simple PowerCLI script to check the amount of free space on VMWare vSphere datastores and detect Thin Provisioning datastores with the total size of…

In a previous article we discussed how to install the KVM hypervisor and create a virtual machine. In a single article we were not able to cover the KVM virtual…

By default, there are no sound devices in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. If you want to get sound from a guest Windows VM, it is easier to use the RDP…

In this article we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but…

In this article we will show how to reduce the size of a virtual disk (vmdk) file of the virtual machine running on VMWare ESXi. Unlike expanding a disk of…