Of all the upgrades I have done to date, this was by far the easiest. Perhaps it was practice or even VMware vSphere’s time in market, but the upgrade to vSphere ESXi 5.1 from v4.1 and v5.0 went ...

A significant part of navigating the complex realm of cyber threats is addressing the vulnerabilities inherent in ESXi hypervisors, a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure and virtualization. ESXi ...

I believe 4.1 is the last version of vSphere that will ship with "full fat" ESX and that future releases will be ESXi only. However, it isn't the future it's now, and I have 2 new vSphere hosts that I ...

The need to log in to an ESXi server via the vSphere client is extremely minimal, but there are instances where you may have to log in to ESXi directly. For instance, your vCenter is a virtual server ...

Of all the new features included in vSphere 6.5, the one that will be most useful to small and mid-sized vSphere deployments is vCenter High Availability (VCHA). I was working on VMware Education's ...

A fresh wave of ransomware activity is being fueled by an uncomfortable mix of software supply-chain risk, rapidly weaponized zero-day ...

My VMware vSphere Upgrade saga started with my having to upgrade my PDC to support Windows 2008 as I discussed within Upgrading to vSphere – The Saga Starts. The next stage of the saga continues… I am ...

Over 45,000 VMware ESXi servers inventoried by Lansweeper just reached end-of-life (EOL), with VMware no longer providing software and security updates unless companies purchase an extended support ...

VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...