VMware VCSA (vCenter Server appliance) is more robust and more scalable. Details in my post which has the details of vCenter server 6.0 (Windows and Linux versions). While deployment of Windows based ...

Fairly often new people discovering VMware asking these questions: ESXi free vs paid? What's the difference? While for many folks, VMware certified people, and others, this question (and especially ...

ESXi 5.5 free limitations has been lifted by VMware. VMware ESXi 5.5 Free version limitations to 32 GB of physical RAM only is gone! VMware has introduced the new enhanced version of VMware vSphere ...

In this how-to you'll see How-to reset root password in VDP (vSphere Data Protection). VDP is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus, so If you're on this package, you have the possibility to use it and ...

In this article you'll learn how to configure VMware High Availability (HA) cluster. It's not in depth article about HA, but gives you enough knowledge and get things running. You could already read ...

This is a quick VMware ESXi upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U3 via a command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to quickly download and upgrade your ESXi host in case you are NOT using a vCenter server AND your ...

I was trying to find some VCP 4 training links today. Since I slowly starting to prepare to to be ready for taking a VCP exam, I'm not only studying by reading PDFs and watching videos (even if it's ...

VMware Data Protection released recently has fixed several bugs and introduced several new features, like restore rehearsal – a feature that you might know from VDR. Another feature adds is the ...

In my previous post you had the possibility to follow on how to configure the backup jobs through the VDP. In this article you'll see the restore operations and also some options on further ...

– You are not able to power on a VM because this one cannot create a swap file on the VMFS volume (which is full of course). When you power on the virtual machine, snapshot files and VSWP files are ...

What're the limitations of the ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it's been discussed ...

I know many of you know what that is, but this post is targeting people who do not or know a little bit, but they're not sure if what they know is enough. If you're an experienced VMware admin you won ...