Virtualization

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…

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…

In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the VMware ESXi installation ISO image (6.7 or 7.0). The ESXi installation image supports (certified) the most popular server…

The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere Client console means that when deleting snapshots (using the Delete…

Remote access to the command prompt (server console) via SSH is disabled by default on VMware ESXi hosts. So, when connecting to an ESXi host over SSH, you will get…

If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped responding, and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V Manager console, you can force-stop…

Let’s look at the issue when your VMFS datastore attached to an ESXi host/vSphere is deleted, lost, or damaged. It may happen, for example, due to a human error when…

Let’s look at several ways to access data stored on the datastore with the VMFS file system of the ESXi host (these are configuration files, data files, and snapshots of…