I haven't found a public cloud provider yet that allows me to run a nested ESXi server as a virtual machine. The public cloud is the perfect place for a test and training labs. Every cloud provider ...

After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with ...

If the message was not clear enough, it is time to move away from the full install of ESX (aka ESX classic). VMware's ESXi hypervisor -- also called the vSphere Hypervisor -- is here to stay. The ...

I think ESXi belongs in this forum, because it's a Linux-based hypervisor. I'm trying to figure out the best free (as in beer AND speech) way to view/control a guest OS from another computer ...

Proxmox may be the head honcho in the home lab ecosystem now, but things were radically different in the past. For years, the home server community heralded ESXi as its virtualization platform of ...

Without any press announcement or ticker-tape parade, VMware decided to quietly remove the "server" from the VMware ESX Server product line. In case you missed it, VMware's hypervisor product is no ...

Every now and then I like to point out some of the free management tools that make our lives as administrators easier. If you’re looking for an easy way to move files between your Windows desktop or ...

Two questions...<BR><BR>First, I'm looking for some advice on LUN sizing on the SAN which our ESX hosts are connected to. Do you have a small number of large LUNs for your virtual machines? Or a large ...

In case you missed it, VMware recently updated its compatibility guides for the VMware ESX Server product: HCL: Storage Compatibility Guide for ESX Server 3.x VMware ESX Server 3.x has been tested and ...

A new form of Linux-based ransomware has been found targeting VMware Inc. servers using the ESXi hypervisor it developed for deploying virtual computers. Detailed Wednesday by researchers at Trend ...

Server partitioning tools such as VMware's ESX Server are designed to enable a single server to run multiple guest operating systems simultaneously. Vendors differentiate their partitioning tools by ...