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…
Virtualization
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Hyper-VPowerShellVirtualizationWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Poor Network Performance on Hyper-V VMs in Windows Server 2019
January 20, 2022Several 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…
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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.
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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…
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Hyper-VVirtualizationVMWareWindows 10
How to Install VMWare ESXi in a Hyper-V Virtual Machine?
September 15, 2021I 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…
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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.…
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Hyper-VPowerShellVirtualizationWindows Server 2016
Hyper-V: Configuring Automatic Startup and Boot Order of VMs
August 20, 2021In 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…
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Hyper-VPowerShellVirtualizationWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Hyper-V: Enabling Routing Between Internal Networks (Subnets)
August 2, 2021My 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.…
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Hyper-VPowerShellVirtualizationWindows Server 2019
Import, Export and Clone Virtual Machines in Hyper-V
July 16, 2021Unlike 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,…
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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…