When building out your VMware virtual infrastructure, it is important to keep in mind the maximum values and limitations of the products and components that you are working with to ensure a scalable ...

Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

Free Tripwire ConfigCheck tool sifts through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware's ESX Server, identifies possible problems, and provides guidelines on how to fix them. Tripwire and ...

There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect ...

Most enterprises have already virtualized existing physical servers (or are contemplating virtualization of their physical server environment) using server virtualization hypervisors. Today, the most ...

When VMware launched vSAN Max in late 2023, it promised storage for VSphere with many of the benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), but without some of its more common limitations. With ...

I am a big fan of VMWare Workstation, and the release of VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 marks a significant moment for this underappreciated desktop hypervisor, as it not only includes a host of new ...