After installing VMware Workstation on a desktop computer running Windows 11/10, you might experience extremely slow performance and unstable operation of the Windows guest operating system in virtual machines. Interestingly,…
In addition to the Windows Server platform, the Hyper-V virtualization platform is also available in the desktop Windows editions. Users can create and run virtual machines using the built-in Hyper-V…
The recently released Proxmox VE 8.2 hypervisor has a built-in wizard for importing virtual machines directly from VMware ESXi hosts. This post explains several scenarios of migrating VMs from VMware…
The RemoteFX vGPU feature can be used in previous versions of Hyper-V (starting with Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2) to passthrough a host discrete GPU graphics card to a virtual…
You can configure SSH key-based authentication to log in to VMware ESXi hosts instead of using a username and password pair. This can be useful if you need to remotely…
Let’s look at how to add a standalone host with an ESXi hypervisor to the VMware vCenter Server (vCSA) for centralized management and use in clustered configurations.
For security reasons, the clipboard is disabled by default in the VMware vSphere Client. This means that you cannot use copy/paste operations between the OS and your computer when you…
This article shows how to create a new virtual machine on a VMware ESXi host and install a guest operating system from an ISO image. Let’s see how to create…
You can use Ansible to automate some tasks in your VMware infrastructure. You can automatically deploy and configure ESXi hosts, manage network settings, start, stop, or delete VMs, deploy virtual…
According to the official VMware documentation, reinstalling ESXi from scratch is the only supported way to reset the root password (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1317898). You can also reset your password using Host Profiles…