If you're an IT admin dealing with the constant threat of ransomware, you know how crucial it is to have a solid backup strategy that goes beyond the ...

Hey folks, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you've been following my blog or my Twitter timeline (@vladan), you know I ...

How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface ...

Recent news about vulnerabilities siting quietly inside our VMware VMs is rather worrying. What if, attacker was going to hack our infrastructure from inside of our VMs? And what if not only Windows ...

Today in my lab after launching VMware Workstation (v17) I had this update window pop-up, but this time things were different. After Broadcom acquisition, the product is free for personal use as you ...

VMware vSphere 7 has been announced and it brings an interesting feature for VM template management via Content Libraries. As you know, Content libraries introduced in vSphere 6.0 are continuously ...

The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This ...

VMware has released recently their latest security patches for ESXi hypervisor. So ESXi 8.0 and ESXi 9.0 (don't know why they call it ESX now) needs to be patched. Whether you're using vSphere 8 with ...

Virtualizing business critical applications, like Microsoft Active Directory (AD) must be done right and with caution. Windows Server 2012 has introduced new feature called VM-Generation ID, which ...

ESXi host client is bundled with VMware Free ESXi Hypervisor. While we still have the possibility to manage single host via traditional vSphere Client (Windows based), it becomes clear that sooner or ...

It has been a while since I haven't deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual ...

If you are regular reader of our blog, you’ve probably heard about Zerto, the go-to solution for disaster recovery and ransomware protection. The latest release, Zerto 10 U7, dropped recently, and ...