Lately, the VMware landscape has felt like a rollercoaster – first the Broadcom acquisition shakes things up, then licensing costs skyrocket, and suddenly, everyone's asking: “Is it time to jump ship?

If you’re small business, or someone who think that VMware is not for you any more, and thinking of leaving VMware, Read on. You might be testing several virtualization platforms as prove of concept ...

This is an expected news (by me at least), and it is quite cool tbh. Veeam started a closed beta for integration another hypervisor platform – XCP-NG! The news came out from Vates.tech blog ...

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today's post. We'll put it again in our ...

Some basic CLI commands for configuring the network, vSwitches and portgroups from command line.. This is not an exhausted list of commands, just few of them. While working through putty session you ...

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 ...

Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I've published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration ...

VMware vFlash Read Cache was introduced in vSphere 5.5 and continue to be present in vSphere 6.x. It allows to leverage local SSD in each host as a cache. Note that no extra VIBs need to be installed ...

Many tools exist for remote access. Some of them are better than others, some of them are more expensive than others. Some shops are using Teamviewer or Anydesk, but some admins might just stick with ...

This is a quick post about the Intel NUC NXJ6412 Maxtang EHL30 that VMware vExperts were given during VMworld VMware EXPLORE Barcelona 2022 and that I have already covered in my detailed post here.

VMware is releasing patches on regular basis, but those aren't always available within the latest installation ISO file (at least not for “free” customers). The idea is to build a new VMware ESXi ISO ...

How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same ...