VMWare

When you install VMware ESXi to an SD card or USB stick (or when using Boot from SAN), the yellow exclamation mark icon is displayed next to the host name…

Sometimes I see that a certain virtual machine on the VMWare ESXi host freezes and it’s impossible to turn off or restart it from vSphere console by any means. Rebooting…

During the migration of virtual machines files from an old HP MSA 2000 storage to a new storage system Dell EMC Unity (both connected to ESXi hosts over SAN) I…

When deploying new ESXi hosts on HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 servers in the HP BLc7000 enclosure, I came across a very strange problem. After installing VMWare ESXi 6.0 on my…

In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the ESXi 6.7 installation ISO image. Despite VMWare ESXi image is certified (supported) for most popular server models, it…

The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting a snapshot (using the option…

In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…

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…