VMWare

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 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…

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 show how to reduce the size of a virtual disk (vmdk) file of the virtual machine running on VMWare ESXi. Unlike expanding a disk of…

To deploy new virtual machines in VMWare, VM templates are typically used. A VMWare VM template is a reference virtual machine copy with the configured settings, installed software and security…

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…

vMotion allows to migrate a running VMWare virtual machine from one physical ESXi host to another one without interrupting its operation and stopping any services. In this article we’ll discuss…

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…

If you want to monitor the state of your VMWare ESXi servers in your monitoring system, you must configure SNMP agent on your hosts. In this article we’ll show how…