VMWare

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…

VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) is a high-performance data storage corporate solution for a hyper-converged infrastructure. vSAN allows to merge SSDs and common HDDs connected to local ESXi servers into a…

When you administrating VMs run on virtualization hosts (VMWare ESXi or Hyper-V) and analyzing performance issues, you quite often face the situations when the size of available memory in the…

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…

When using Windows as a Remote Desktop server or in VDI solutions, multiple users share the resources of a single server. The less resources each user session consumes, the higher…

By default, vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is supplied only with one preconfigured vNIC. However, there are scenarios, in which VMWare vCenter Server has to be connected to different networks (VLAN),…

In each new ESXi release, VMware updates the VM version and, consequently, the parameters of virtual hardware. As a rule, in the new VM version new features appear, old bugs…

When connecting to a VMWare vCenter server using a web-browser, there appears a warning of self-signed certificate issued by an untrusted certification authority. In Firefox, this warning can be disabled…