VMware

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…

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…

The ‘Operating system not found‘ or ‘Missing operating system‘ message at the computer boot means that there is no operating system bootloader on the current drive/media. As a result, your…

NFS storage can be used in VMware infrastructure to store virtual machine files, disk images, and other files. In this post, we’ll look at how to unmount an NFS datastore…

The main advantage of virtual machines is the flexibility to allocate additional resources to VMs when you need them. If you run out of free space on a virtual hard…