If you’ve been following my blog for a while (yes, we’re talking back to the early ESXi days), you know I love practical, ...

If you’ve been following my blog for a while (yes, we’re talking back to the early ESXi days), you know I love practical, cost-effective solutions that actually work in the real world — especially for ...

Exchange database may dismount after reboot if the logs were not committed to the database, low storage, corrupt logs or database, etc. In such a case, the database ...

Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I've published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration ...

Well, not quite likely, but yes, VMware is developing a system that it called ESXi Live Patching. What is it? Its basically a way to patch the ESXi and install critical fixes and security patches to ...

This is exciting. After successfully installed my Xen Orchestra in the lab (nested with VMware Workstation. BTW, you can also use VMware Workstation Player which is FREE), when testing XCP-NG (after ...

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today's post. We'll put it again in our ...

A Switch from one hypervisor to another needs special tools to convert virtual disks and layouts. There is a Free Tool from StarWind called V2V Converter / P2V Migrator. It's kinda 2-in-1 tool which ...

Mount VMFS Datastore manually is sometimes necessary when working with DR plans. A volume that isn't automatically mounted on the other side has to be mounted manually. Normaly SRM takes care of it.

Before we jump into the lab and show you How to Configure Statistics Collection Intervals in vCenter, we'll first touch few words on what is Statistic collection interval and what it does. Statistic ...

It has been a while since I haven't deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual ...

Yes, you read it right, Vinchin Backup and recovery is currently supports 15 different hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox or XCP-NG. The data protection solution is based China, however ...