There are many issues and requirements to consider when you upgrade vCenter server and ESXi hosts to vSphere 5.5. The last thing you want is to have the upgrade fail ...

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 ...

To take advantage of new and updated features in vSphere 6.5, I recently needed to update one of my lab systems from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. As the system was co-located, I decided to update it from the ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

We are in the final stages of re-subnetting our entire corporate network due to being acquired earlier this year. The final piece includes our VMWare environment. We have a 3 node HA cluster with a ...

I've read all the documentation I can find and Google searched all day but I am still very confused. I've done VMFS datastores before without a problem but I am really scratching my head on how to add ...

I will admit first of all that I am no scripter. But I find that when I go about the task of doing repetitive tasks, PowerCLI (vSphere's PowerShell extension) is the way to go. I usually also ...

First, let us talk about VMware Workstation Pro. It has the AutoStart feature that allows the machine to start when the Windows host machine starts. Now, you need to open the VMware Workstation, then ...