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…

In this article, we’ll show how to manually patch a VMware host from the command line, and how to upgrade your ESXi version (in this example, we will upgrade a…

By default, inactivity timeouts are configured in ESXi Host Client or vSphere Web Client management interfaces. Inactivity timeouts cause user sessions to automatically close if users have not opened a…

In each new ESXi release, VMware updates the version of the virtual machine and the virtual hardware. In new versions of the VMware VMs, new functionality appears, new virtual devices…

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a set of PowerShell modules to manage VMware infrastructure from the command prompt. You can use PowerCLI to get a state of virtual machines, datastores, networks,…

I saw a strange error: Errno 28 “No space left on device” when trying to manually update a VMWare ESXi version on a standalone host:

The error “Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms” may appear when installing the Windows 10/11 or Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 operating system on a bare-metal computer/server or on a…

This article explains how to install Windows 11 as a guest OS in a virtual machine running on VMware Workstation or VMware ESXi hypervisors. When trying to install Windows 11…

In this article, we’ll look at how to increase the size of a VMFS datastore using the vSphere Web Client interface or VMware ESXi command prompt.