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…
Virtualization
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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…
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Hyper-VVMWareWindows 10
How to Install Hyper-V Role in Windows 10 VM under VMWare ESXi
August 8, 2018One 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…
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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…
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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…
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Hyper-VWindows Server 2016
Configuring Hyper-V Live Migration without Failover Clustering
August 29, 2017Live 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.…
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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…
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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,…