Virtualization

This article explains how to install Windows 11 as a guest OS in a virtual machine running on VMware Workstation or VMware ESXi hypervisors. When trying to install Windows 11…

Several times I came across a situation when files were copied much slower from/to virtual machines on a Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2019 than in a VM of the…

In this article, we’ll look at how to increase the size of a VMFS datastore using the vSphere Web Client interface or VMware ESXi command prompt.

In VMware vSphere, you can use an iSCSI disk as a shared datastore for your ESXi hosts. An ESXi host accesses iSCSI storage over your local network using the TCP…

I wanted to install a VMWare ESXi in a Hyper-V virtual machine running on Windows 10 for my homelab stand. Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi support nested virtualization so this scenario…

I have noticed an annoying feature in the VMWare Workstation hypervisor. If you don’t use a virtual machine for some time, it is automatically suspended by the built-in Auto-Suspend feature.…

In Hyper-V, you can configure automatic startup and shutdown options for your virtual machines when you boot or restart your host OS. In this article, we’ll show how to configure…

My task is to create multiple internal IP subnets and configure routing between them on my standalone Hyper-V stand. By default, Hyper-V doesn’t route traffic between networks on virtual switches.…

Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…

In this article we’ll show a simple PowerCLI script to check the amount of free space on VMWare vSphere datastores and detect Thin Provisioning datastores with the total size of…