DNS has always been a critical component or VMware server-based virtualization. When an ESX or ESXi cluster came into the mix, its criticality increased exponentially. One of the big differences ...

For those of you running ESXi hosts with 10Gbit NICs, how many do you have per server and how do you have them configured (some dedicated to storage? vMotion/FT? etc.)? Up until now, we have only used ...

Interested in gathering some feedback on the value of 2 vs. 4 x 10gb nic's per ESX host in an iSCSI SAN environment. Traditional best practice might dictate 4 nics. 2 ...

Ever since I stepped into the home lab landscape with Proxmox, I’ve tinkered with multiple server-oriented distros, including the Xen-based XCP-ng, enterprise-grade Harvester, and even Unix-powered ...

How to install VMware’s ESXi hypervisor on bare-metal hardware Your email has been sent This walk-through will show you how to install VMware's ESXi hypervisor on ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

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 ...