I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine. The public cloud is the perfect place for a test and training labs. Every cloud provider ...

Every now and then I like to point out some of the free management tools that make our lives as administrators easier. If you’re looking for an easy way to move files between your Windows desktop or ...

Without any press announcement or ticker-tape parade, VMware decided to quietly remove the "server" from the VMware ESX Server product line. In case you missed it, VMware's hypervisor product is no ...

Proxmox may be the head honcho in the home lab ecosystem now, but things were radically different in the past. For years, the home server community heralded ESXi as its virtualization platform of ...

In case you missed it, VMware recently updated its compatibility guides for the VMware ESX Server product: HCL: Storage Compatibility Guide for ESX Server 3.x VMware ESX Server 3.x has been tested and ...

Hey guys, I am looking at this product line to help me spread my burdgeoning application requirements over my underutilized server hardware. Having used the workstation product in the past I have been ...

Two questions...<BR><BR>First, I'm looking for some advice on LUN sizing on the SAN which our ESX hosts are connected to. Do you have a small number of large LUNs for your virtual machines? Or a large ...

A new form of Linux-based ransomware has been found targeting VMware Inc. servers using the ESXi hypervisor it developed for deploying virtual computers. Detailed Wednesday by researchers at Trend ...

The FBI and CISA have released a recovery script for the global ESXiArgs ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi servers, but the ransomware has since been updated to elude former attempts at ...

Every now and then I like to point out some of the free management tools that make our lives as administrators easier. If you’re looking for an easy way to move files between your Windows desktop or ...

Server partitioning tools such as VMware's ESX Server are designed to enable a single server to run multiple guest operating systems simultaneously. Vendors differentiate their partitioning tools by ...