DNS has always been a critical component or VMware server-based virtualization. When an ESX or ESXi cluster came into the mix, its criticality increased exponentially. One of the big differences ...

For those of you running ESXi hosts with 10Gbit NICs, how many do you have per server and how do you have them configured (some dedicated to storage? vMotion/FT? etc.)? Up until now, we have only used ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

First, let us talk about VMware Workstation Pro. It has the AutoStart feature that allows the machine to start when the Windows host machine starts. Now, you need to open the VMware Workstation, then ...

VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

From a traffic perspective your 8 port @ 85% hosts (~6.4Gbps of traffic) would be happy over a single 10 gig link. 2 ports would get you redundancy. The caveat: With NIOC setup properly in a degraded ...

Regenerating certificates may securely resolve authentication traffic, which is not being properly encrypted. By default, VMware host servers, like ESXi hosts typically generate new certificates when ...