vMotion allows you to migrate a running VMWare virtual machine from one physical ESXi host to another one without interrupting its operation and stopping any services.…
CoreyJune 21, 2021
On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting…
CoreyMarch 1, 2021
When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches…
CoreyJanuary 27, 2021
In the VMWare vSphere Client interface you can search virtual machines by their names only. But in some cases it is necessary to find the…
CoreyMay 13, 2020
I faced a strange problem when trying to upload any file (ISO, vmdk, OVA/OVF, etc.) to a VMFS Datastore in VMware vSphere (6.7). When I…
CoreyApril 22, 2020
When you install VMware ESXi to an SD card or USB stick (or when using Boot from SAN), the yellow exclamation mark icon is displayed…
CoreyMarch 25, 2020
Sometimes I see that a certain virtual machine on the VMWare ESXi host freezes and it’s impossible to turn off or restart it from vSphere…
CoreyFebruary 24, 2020
During the migration of virtual machines files from an old HP MSA 2000 storage to a new storage system Dell EMC Unity (both connected to…
CoreyJanuary 31, 2020
When deploying new ESXi hosts on HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 servers in the HP BLc7000 enclosure, I came across a very strange problem. After installing…
CoreyJanuary 17, 2020
In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the ESXi 6.7 installation ISO image. Despite VMWare ESXi image is certified (supported) for…
CoreyDecember 20, 2019
The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting…
CoreyNovember 20, 2019
