Virtualization

By default, there are no sound devices in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. If you want to get sound from a guest Windows VM, it is easier to use the RDP…

In this article we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but…

In this article, we will look at how to reduce the size of a virtual machine’s hard disk (VMDK) in VMware ESXi. From the vSphere Client GUI, you cannot reduce…

Sometimes it is necessary to connect an external USB storage drive (flash drive) directly to a VMware ESXi host. This might be necessary for offline transfer of virtual machine files…

One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…

Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…

Very often when deleting snapshots or consolidating disks of virtual machines running on VMWare ESXi hosts, I see the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error. This…

You can use the standard SNMP protocol to monitor the health of VMWare ESXi hosts. This article shows you how to enable and configure the SNMP agent on VMWare ESXi…

When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…

On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting from ESXi 4.1.