Administration Category

How to Extend Windows VM Partitions

January 22, 2024
When a virtual disk on a virtual machine is full, you need to increase the virtual disk size. However, partitions located on the virtual dis...

The Most Useful ESXCLI Commands for Your VMware Environment

December 22, 2023
You can use vSphere Client, the GUI provided by VMware, and VMware vSphere Web/HTML5 Client, which is web-based, to manage ESXi hosts and yo...

How to Disable Hyper-V in Windows

December 13, 2023
Microsoft Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor that you can install on Windows – including on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In some scenario...

How to Open VMDK Files in VMware and Extract Data

December 13, 2023
Understanding how to open VMDK files and extract content from VMDK files is useful when you encounter a problem with a virtual machine. You...

Adding Teams to Outlook: A How-to Guide

December 12, 2023
The integration of Microsoft Outlook 365 and Microsoft Teams is useful because it allows for seamless communication, efficient scheduling of...

How to Migrate from VMware to Hyper-V

December 11, 2023
You may need to convert a VMware VM into a Hyper-V VM for different reasons. For example, you may have a multi-hypervisor environment, you m...

How to Expand Disk Partitions in Linux VMs

December 11, 2023
Insufficient virtual disk space can lead to issues, including poor performance. For example, you set up a virtual disk, create partitions, a...

NAKIVO Solution Licensing and Renewal Guide

November 29, 2023
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a flexible licensing model that includes perpetual and subscription-based types and five editions....

What Is VM Sprawl and How to Prevent It

November 20, 2023
Virtualization allows you to create a number of virtual machines on a single physical server. This technology provides several advantages, i...

No Bootable Medium Found in VirtualBox – Reasons and Fixes

November 17, 2023
Sometimes when you are creating a new VM in Virtualbox or when you are trying to start an existing VM, your VM cannot boot and you get the e...

How to Update NAKIVO Solution Components

November 14, 2023
It is recommended that you update NAKIVO Backup & Replication with every new release to get the latest security patches, enhancements an...

The Most Effective Ways to Transfer Files from a VM to a Host

November 6, 2023
Virtual machines provide many advantages, such as flexibility, rational use of resources and running in isolated environments. A common task...

How to Increase Office 365 Mailbox Size Limits

November 2, 2023
Microsoft email services are included in nearly every Office 365 subscription plan. However, Exchange Online mailbox size limits vary from o...

VMware ESXi Networking Concepts

August 28, 2023
For connecting physical servers and computers to a network, you need physical network adapters, switches, and routers. With virtual machines...

Difference Between Single Tenant and Multi Tenant in AWS

August 8, 2023
There are different approaches to deploying software for multiple users in large organizations and public clouds. Selecting the approach or...

Hyper-V Nested Virtualization Explained

July 25, 2023
Hyper-V nested virtualization is a feature that was first released with Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and available on workstations as...

What is ReFS File System: Benefits and Best Practices

June 16, 2023
Windows Server 2019 offers many exciting benefits across the board. However, when thinking about storage features with this release and, mor...

Using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Technology for Consistent Backups

June 16, 2023
When creating a backup of a virtual or physical machine with running applications, especially applications that intensively write data to fi...

What Is Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking: Using RCT for VM Backup

June 9, 2023
When it comes to backup efficiency and copying only unique data blocks between full backups (that is, creating incremental backups), change...

The Differences Between VMFS 5 vs VMFS 6 and How to Migrate

June 7, 2023
VMware VMFS is a reliable cluster file system optimized to store virtual machine files. The most recent versions of VMware VMFS – VMFS 5 and...