DNS has always been a critical component or VMware server-based virtualization. When an ESX or ESXi cluster came into the mix, its criticality increased exponentially. One of the big differences ...

For those of you running ESXi hosts with 10Gbit NICs, how many do you have per server and how do you have them configured (some dedicated to storage? vMotion/FT? etc.)? Up until now, we have only used ...

I have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts. Customer is too cheap to buy even the Essentials license... Storage is a Dell MD3000i. I setup the first host with 4 VM's, all is fine. I want the second ESXi node to access ...

How to install VMware’s ESXi hypervisor on bare-metal hardware Your email has been sent This walk-through will show you how to install VMware's ESXi hypervisor on ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

First, let us talk about VMware Workstation Pro. It has the AutoStart feature that allows the machine to start when the Windows host machine starts. Now, you need to open the VMware Workstation, then ...

VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...

Among the hardening steps your organization may employ, joining an Active Directory (AD) domain helps administrators to simplify management of underlying hypervisor used to host virtual machines (VM) ...