Virtualization

Quite often, VMWare administrators are faced with the fact that the list of virtual machines contains VMs with the Invalid (Unknown) status. As a rule, the issue occurs after deleting…

I had an old, but reliable HP Microserver N40L. I had been using it 24/7 since 2012. It was running ESXi 5.1. There was a couple of 2003R2 servers (a…

One of the test tasks required to install Hyper-V virtualization role on Windows 10 virtual machine (applicable to Windows Server 2016 as well) running on a VMWare ESXi host. It…

Today we’ll discuss three simple ways to access the data stored on VMFS datastore of the ESXi host (these are configuration files, data files and snapshots of virtual machines) from…

Sometimes even experienced administrators get confused of VMware licensing peculiarities, available options and features. Regular changes (from one vSphere version to another almost every year) in VMware licensing policy add…

Live Migration technology in the Hyper-V virtualization system allows to move a running virtual machine between Hyper-V hosts without stopping it or without any impact on the availability of services.…

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is a great free utility to convert a physical system into a virtual one (P2V) or one virtual system into another (V2V). Starting from VMware Converter…

Several times I have come across the situation when the NFS datastore on the VMWare ESXi host becomes unavailable / inactive and greyed out in the host’s storage list. However,…