Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

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 ...

One thing that is a must for most organizations is to join the vCenter Server to Active Directory. A few words of advice to do this smoothly. Last year when I wrote 10 Steps to Setting Up vCenter ...

Nothing is more frustrating than determining that a virtual machine cannot be migrated when you need to migrate a number of guests, such as when you're putting a host in maintenance mode. If DRS is in ...