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Troubleshooting no network or internet in VMware Workstation

If a virtual machine (VM) in a VMware workstation cannot establish a connection to other VMs or the internet,...
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer: Installation and configuration

VMware's NSX Advanced Load Balancer is a rebrand of the Avi Networks load balancer, as VMware purchased Avi Networks...
Create a Windows VM in Proxmox VE

In my previous post, you learned how to get started with Proxmox VE as an alternative to VMware and...
Install vCenter 8 in VMware Workstation

Many people use VMware Workstation to set up lab environments. The first step in getting vSphere 8 with a...
Proxmox VE vs. VMware ESXi vs. Hyper-V

At some point, admins need to pick a suitable virtualization solution that best aligns with their existing server infrastructure....
Install ESXi in a VirtualBox VM

VirtualBox provides an effective and free solution for running ESXi in a lab environment. However, at this point, the...
Proxmox VE: Virtualization alternative to VMware ESXi and Hyper-V

Are you looking for a virtualization alternative to Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi? Proxmox VE is a Debian-based opensource...
Upgrade VMware vCenter 6.x to vCenter 8.0

Statistically speaking, the most popular version of vSphere in production environments is vSphere 6.x. Since VMware has officially ended...
ESXi 8 Free: new features, hardware requirements, and licensing

VMware's hypervisor is not only a component of the vSphere platform but can also be used for individual hosts....
New features in VMware vSphere 8

The vSphere 8 release includes many new features that are exposed in the new vCenter Server 8 and ESXi...
VMware vSphere 8: Editions, licensing, and pricing

VMware recently announced the licensing terms, editions, and pricing of vSphere 8. All components, including ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN,...
Install VMware ESXi on Dell PowerEdge

Learn how to install and configure VMware ESXi on a Dell PowerEdge server. I will also give you a...
Troubleshoot VMware using vSphere Diagnostic Tool

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a new VMware Fling that helps bring together useful troubleshooting information and diagnostics in a...
Install ESXi network drivers for Intel e1000 and Intel I220 / I221 / I225/ I226 chipsets

Many IT professionals and others run VMware lab environments for learning, certification prep, evaluation, and other use cases. They...
Install Windows 11 in a VM on VMware Workstation or ESXi

With the release of Windows 11, many are starting to test the OS on virtual machines. VMware Workstation and...
How to use VMware vSAN ReadyNode Configurator

VMware vSAN is a hyperconverged solution that creates a shared datastore from locally attached disks within each server of...
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Toolkit version 1.3 new features

VMware released a new version of the Tanzu Kubernetes Toolkit. In this post, I will discuss the new features...
Disaster recovery strategies for vCenter Server appliance VM

In this post, we'll list some of the most common disaster recovery strategies for small environments for VMware vCenter...
Compress-Vhdx: Compress multiple VHDX files using the PowerShell cmdlet Optimize-VHD

My PowerShell function Compress-Vhdx allows you to compress multiple VHDX files with a single command to reclaim space from...