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…
Virtualization
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USB Device Passthrough (Redirect) to Hyper-V Virtual Machine
May 10, 2023One 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…
- Hyper-VPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Extend or Shrink Virtual Hard Disks on Hyper-V?
January 19, 2022Dynamic 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…
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VMWare Error: Unable to Access a File Since It Is Locked
September 15, 2022Very 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…
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Selecting the Number of vCPUs and Cores for a Virtual Machine
June 19, 2023When 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.…
- CentOSKVMLinuxWindows Server 2012 R2
KVM: How to Expand or Shrink a Virtual Machine Disk Size?
June 19, 2023In 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…