DataCore acquired StarWind Software in May 2025. For many of us who have followed StarWind Virtual SAN, their HCI appliances, ...

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 ...

Lost important files from a virtual machine and are not sure how to get them back? Virtual disk recovery may seem complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. With this virtual machine data recovery guide, ...

How to maintain a the same MAC address all the time within your vSphere 4 installation. In VMware vSphere 4 environement, when you move your VM to another host or the VM has different path on the same ...

VMware vSphere 7 has been announced and it brings an interesting feature for VM template management via Content Libraries. As you know, Content libraries introduced in vSphere 6.0 are continuously ...

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 ...

Outlook PST files still cause plenty of headaches for admins and end users alike. Large files, sudden corruption after a crash, network sharing issues, or ...

If you're like many ESXi users that are running bunch of ESXi hosts without vCenter Server in labs and testing environments, you might wonder how to patch/upgrade to the latest version. It's not that ...

Today's freebie is from a guy who 30 years ago designed the original Windows Task manager. If you’ve ever hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc on a Windows box and stared at the Task Manager wondering what’s eating ...

This post is a quick recap of different ways to change a hostname of an ESXi host. There are different ways we work and different tools we use. Not every time we have the chance to use the tools we ...

Here is the thing. You need to check your vCenter server version. How do you proceed? There are many ways to do it. You can view this information through vSphere C# ...

How to mount your VMDK hard disks easily? Vmware is using VMDK format for virtual disks. You might do not know that you can mount virtual disks (.VMDK) file directly to your windows explorer interface ...