After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Hi,<BR><BR>We have an ESX Infrastructure 3 server (purchased before they went free w/ ESXi) and are slowly rolling out our a few VM's. Thus far, we've used the ESX server for a few smaller, ...

Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores. For VMware environments, planning your storage ...

There's a new way to speed up read operations on your VMs. The new VMware-developed vFlash server-side read caching, announced at VMworld 2013 as part of VMware vSphere 5.5, aims to dramatically ...

If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI tools. However, you may never have checked out the contents of the C:\Program Files\VMware Workstation folder after installing the ...

If your VMWare installation and the guest OS meet the requirement, you can enable the Copy & Paste feature that works using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C and Ctrl ...