The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere Client console means that when deleting snapshots (using the Delete or Delete All options), there were files left on the disk that could not be merged (committed) with the main virtual disk file (vmdk). As a result, you cannot backup such a virtual machine, and its performance is degraded.
Very often ‘too many open files’ errors occur on high-load Linux servers. It means that a process has opened too many files (file descriptors) and cannot open new ones. On…
Remote access to the command prompt (server console) via SSH is disabled by default on VMware ESXi hosts. So, when connecting to an ESXi host over SSH, you will get…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
Find Windows OS Versions and Builds in Active Directory
February 20, 2023Let’s look at several ways to inventory versions and builds of Windows OSs in an Active Directory domain (it is especially relevant for Windows 10). If you haven’t any tools…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Migrating RDS Roles (Connection Broker, Web Access) to Another Server
March 11, 2024This guide should help you to migrate (move) Remote Desktop Connection Broker and RDS Web Access roles to another server. In this example, we will migrate the RDS Connection Broker…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
How to Enable and Configure WinRM (Windows Remote Management) via GPO
August 9, 2024In this article, we will show how to enable and configure Windows Remote Management (WinRM) on domain computers using Group Policy (GPO). Windows Remote Management is an implementation of the…
- Windows 11Windows Server 2019
Adding USB 3.0 and NVMe Drivers to Windows 7 Install Media
March 11, 2024The Windows 7 RTM distribution doesn’t support USB 3.0 and NVME controllers out-of-the-box, and you can encounter some problems when installing Windows 7 on a computer/laptop having USB 3.0/3.1 ports…
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Configuring SFTP (SSH FTP) Server on Windows
March 17, 2024You can use the built-in OpenSSH package in Windows to easily enable secure file transfers between the client and Windows server using the SFTP (Secure FTP) protocol. In this article,…
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Start Menu or Taskbar Search Not Working in Windows 10/11
April 22, 2025The Start Menu search feature is used more often in Windows 10 and 11 than in previous OS versions. You can use Windows Start Menu search to quickly find an…
- Hyper-VPowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Stuck in Stopping/Starting State
March 16, 2024If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped responding, and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V Manager console, you can force-stop…