Our VMware datastore naming convention is a bit of a mess (it grew organically). Some datastores are named based on department, while others have more generic descriptions that describe the purpose of ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

VMware storage entails more than simply mapping a logical unit number (LUN) to a physical server. VMware’s vSphere enables system administrators to create multiple virtual servers on a single physical ...

After previously writing about installing ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi, Tom Fenton walks through the process of using a USB flash drive as a local datastore on the Pi. In my previous articles on ESXi ...

At the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) in February, VMware announced vSphere 6.0. vSphere was an evolutionary release for VMware, with one major exception: It included Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), a ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

VSphere enables administrators to manage virtualized servers and operating systems all from a single client. Most virtual machines are installed to a host via a CD, DVD or international organization ...

Although there is an option to manually migrate or import VMs from VMware ESXi to Proxmox, we will not discuss it in this post. We will demonstrate how to use Proxmox’s Built-in Import Wizard to ...

There’s no denying server virtualisation has been a highly successful technology that has transformed the way applications are deployed in the datacentre. What previously took weeks and months can now ...