Virtualization

From time to time in the vSphere Client interface I come across the notification: Your password will expire in xx days. I decided to learn how to manage password policies…

In the VMWare vSphere Client interface, you can search virtual machines by their names only. But in some cases, it is necessary to find the specific VMWare virtual machine by…

This article discusses the specifics of organizing virtual machine backups in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. We’ll look at the basic requirements for Hyper-V backup solutions, backup strategies, and the main…

I faced a strange problem when trying to copy (upload) any file (ISO, vmdk, OVA/OVF, etc.) to the VMFS Datastore in VMware vSphere (6.7). When I click on the “Upload…

When you install VMware ESXi to an SD card or USB stick (or when using Boot from SAN), the yellow exclamation mark icon is displayed next to the host name…

Sometimes I see that a certain virtual machine on the VMWare ESXi host freezes and it’s impossible to turn off or restart it from vSphere console by any means. Rebooting…

During the migration of virtual machines files from an old HP MSA 2000 storage to a new storage system Dell EMC Unity (both connected to ESXi hosts over SAN) I…

When deploying new ESXi hosts on HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 servers in the HP BLc7000 enclosure, I came across a very strange problem. After installing VMWare ESXi 6.0 on my…

In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…

Quite often, VMWare administrators are faced with the fact that the list of virtual machines contains VMs with the Invalid (Unknown) status. As a rule, the issue occurs after deleting…