At a training class I attended, among the first comments from the instructor was that everything a virtualization administrator would ever want to do can be done through the VI Client. I quickly piped ...

With vSphere 4.1, VMware removed the easy-to-use Windows Host Update Utility from the standard offering of ESXi. Things are made easy when VMware Update Manager is in use with vCenter, but the free ...

Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

I have the esxi command line tools installed and I have about 60 vm's that I need to modify the memory setting on. How do I do this from the command line using one of the esxi command line tools? I ...

The short story is I am spinning up a FreeNAS instance on an R730XD. The server has 4 NVMe 1TB drives installed. One is used as a data store for ISOs, etc. One is used for critical VMs and two are ...