We need to do a VMware consolidation down from 4.0 Enterprise to 5.1 Essentials Plus. I have 4 hosts that are going to be retired as part of the migration but I need to get the VMs off of them first.

Our admittedly small in-house virtualization setup started with two standalone ESXi hosts, one 5.0, one 5.1. Both in production, no feature licensing, so I basically had to shut everything down to do ...

One of the most lauded features of vSphere 4.1 is the built-in Active Directory authentication engine for ESXi hosts. It's very easy to configure, and it works for both free ESXi installations as well ...

The Host TPM Attestation Alarm in VMware vSphere indicates a security verification issue with the ESXi host’s TPM (Trusted Platform Module). TPM Attestation helps ensure the integrity of the ESXi host ...

Over the years, I’ve experimented with numerous server operating systems and have built home labs on everything from good ol’ (barebones) Debian and containerization platforms to the ...