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VMware Backup Guide: Methods and Best Practices
April 2, 2024
Backup remains the best approach to data protection for physical and virtual machines, even in the face of new threats to data integrity and...
How to Protect Backups from Ransomware with NAKIVO’s Malware Scan
March 26, 2024
Backups have become a primary target for ransomware. Hackers want to ensure that companies pay the ransom by not allowing them to recover th...
How to Clone Virtual Machines on ESXi Hosts: 5 Methods
March 13, 2024
Virtualization allows for more efficient workflows and resource utilization thanks to features like VM templates or VM cloning, which allows...
How to Configure VMware Log Location on ESXi
March 1, 2024
VMware ESXi is a hypervisor that similarly, to other operating systems and software products, writes log files. We have covered the most use...
VMware Log Analysis for Troubleshooting
February 19, 2024
VMware server software products provide log files that record data about events of each software component with timestamps. VMware logs can...
How to Set Up VMware ESXi Lab – A Complete Guide
February 15, 2024
VMware is one of the best virtualization platforms in the world, popular among IT specialists for its ability to provide high-speed operatio...
LockBit Ransomware: What You Need to Know to Protect Against It
February 8, 2024
LockBit continues to be a top threat for organizations in the very diverse ransomware landscape. In the first half of 2023, there were more...
6 Ways to Move a VMware VM from One EXSi Host to Another
February 6, 2024
When you have more than one ESXi host in your environment, you may need to migrate virtual machines from one host to another. The reason can...
Installing TrueNAS to Create an iSCSI Target
February 6, 2024
TrueNAS is a software solution that allows you to transform a computer into a NAS (network-attached storage) server. There are two editions:...
4 Ways to Back Up the ESXi Host Configuration
January 25, 2024
Virtualization offers several advantages for backup and recovery operations, which are the backbone of data protection, operational continui...
What Is Cloud Backup and How Does It Work?
January 24, 2024
Cloud backup is a popular method for copying and storing an organization’s data on an offsite server. Organizations continue to rely on clou...
How to Fix VMware vCenter Installation Issues
January 24, 2024
Installing vCenter Server is essential for any VMware virtual environment with multiple ESXi hosts for centralized management. A VMware home...
Differences Between VM Snapshots and Backups
January 22, 2024
Backups and snapshots are two popular technologies that enterprises use to mitigate data loss and minimize disruptions. In fact, backups and...
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 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...
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...
Setting the Number of VMware CPU Cores Per Socket: Best Practices
December 8, 2023
When configuring processor settings for a new virtual machine, there are several key concepts to understand: how to calculate the number of...
VMware vSphere 8 Update 2 – What’s New
November 21, 2023
VMware vSphere is a powerful virtualization platform that is regularly updated with improvements and new features. At the end of 2023, VMwar...