VMWare

I saw a strange error: Errno 28 “No space left on device” when trying to manually update a VMWare ESXi version on a standalone host:

The error “Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms” may appear when installing the Windows 10/11 or Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 operating system on a bare-metal computer/server or on a…

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…

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 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.…

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 you may need to directly connect an external USB flash drive (stick) to your VMWare ESXi host. For example, you may need it to copy a virtual machine image…