Virtualization

According to the official VMware documentation, reinstalling ESXi from scratch is the only supported way to reset the root password (https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1317898). You can also reset your password using Host Profiles…

The ‘Operating system not found‘ or ‘Missing operating system‘ message at the computer boot means that there is no operating system bootloader on the current drive/media. As a result, your…

If you installed Hyper-V on a non-GUI edition of Windows (Windows Server Core or Microsoft Hyper-V Server), you can use PowerShell cmdlets from the Hyper-V module to manage your hosts…

NFS storage can be used in VMware infrastructure to store virtual machine files, disk images, and other files. In this post, we’ll look at how to unmount an NFS datastore…

The main advantage of virtual machines is the flexibility to allocate additional resources to VMs when you need them. If you run out of free space on a virtual hard…

You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…

VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a free, powerful, and reliable hardware hypervisor for server and workstation virtualization from market leader VMware. In this article, we’ll show you how to download, install,…

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a free version of Windows hypervisor that can be used to run virtual machines. In this guide, we’ll look at how to install and configure Microsoft…

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone is a free tool from VMware that allows you to convert (migrate) a physical server (computer) to a virtual machine (P2V, Physical-to–Virtual) or move a VM…

IPerf is an open-source command line tool designed to test network throughput between two network hosts. The iPerf allows to generate TCP and UDP traffic (load) between two hosts. You…