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 some extra mess. Let’s try to consider the available VMware vSphere editions, their features, differences, licensing costs and procedures on.. read more

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 is the density of terminal or VDI sessions supported by a single host. The same is also true when running.. read more

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), for example, to an isolated, backup or replication network. Let’s consider how to add and configure an additional vNIC network.. read more

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 are fixed, etc. So when moving to a newer ESXi version it is recommended to upgrade virtual hardware version for.. read more

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 just by adding a vCenter website to the list of exceptions, but in Internet Explorer the procedure is more complicated.

In this overview, we’ll tell how to use Altaro VM Backup to back up virtual machines running on VMWare vSphere. We’ll show how to install and configure Altaro VM Backup, create a backup task and recover a VM. Originally, this product was called Altaro Hyper-V Backup and used to back.. read more

I get the error “Performance Charts service returned an invalid response” when trying to view the performance charts from the vSphere 6 Web Client. Performance overview charts are not displayed on all objects. This happens only with the domain account, when using an administrator account built in SSO, the performance.. read more

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 5.0, this system supports the feature to synchronize changes between the original system and the virtual machine-copy located on the.. read more

Let’s consider how to reset a forgotten root password on the deployed VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). We remind that vCSA is a ready virtual machine with an installed Linux OS and configured vCenter Server and additional services. Since a VM vCenter Appliance is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,.. read more

When working with VMWare vSphere virtual machines, a virtual machine can sometimes hang up and it’s impossible to stop or restart it from vSphere console. In these cases, the only way to turn off or restart a virtual machine is to reboot the whole ESXi server that is not always.. read more