After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Hi,<BR><BR>We have an ESX Infrastructure 3 server (purchased before they went free w/ ESXi) and are slowly rolling out our a few VM's. Thus far, we've used the ESX server for a few smaller, ...

When we tried to turn on a virtual machine on VMware Workstation after closing it, we encountered an error that said the machine was already in use. Users have ...

Massive ransomware operation targets VMware ESXi: How to protect from this security threat Your email has been sent How does this ransomware attack operate? France and U.S. are the biggest targets How ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

If your VMWare installation and the guest OS meet the requirement, you can enable the Copy & Paste feature that works using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C and Ctrl ...

Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores. For VMware environments, planning your storage ...

New ESXiArgs ransomware attacks are now encrypting more extensive amounts of data, making it much harder, if not impossible, to recover encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines. Last Friday, a massive ...

There's a new way to speed up read operations on your VMs. The new VMware-developed vFlash server-side read caching, announced at VMworld 2013 as part of VMware vSphere 5.5, aims to dramatically ...

If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI tools. However, you may never have checked out the contents of the C:\Program Files\VMware Workstation folder after installing the ...