Virtualization

Sometimes you may need to directly connect an external USB flash drive (stick) to your VMWare ESXi host. For example, you may need it to copy a virtual machine image…

One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…

Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…

vMotion allows to migrate a running VMWare virtual machine from one physical ESXi host to another one without interrupting its operation and stopping any services. In this article we’ll discuss…

Very often when deleting snapshots or consolidating disks of virtual machines running on VMWare ESXi hosts, I see the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error. This…

If you want to monitor the state of your VMWare ESXi servers in your monitoring system, you must configure SNMP agent on your hosts. In this article we’ll show how…

When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it.…

On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting from ESXi 4.1.

When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…

In this article we’ll talk about how to resize KVM virtual machine disks for popular disk types. We’ll show how to correctly increase a virtual machine disk size in the…