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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…

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.

When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…

From time to time in the vSphere Client interface I come across the notification: Your password will expire in xx days. I decided to learn how to manage password policies…

Sometimes, the running virtual machine on the VMware ESXi host might freeze and not respond to the vSphere Client shutdown or restart command. In this article, we will find out…

During the migration of virtual machines files from an old HP MSA 2000 storage to a new storage system Dell EMC Unity (both connected to ESXi hosts over SAN) I…

When deploying new ESXi hosts on HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 servers in the HP BLc7000 enclosure, I came across a very strange problem. After installing VMWare ESXi 6.0 on my…