VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with th...
Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade...
Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be pro...
VMware ESXi partitions layout includes some old FAT partitions used for the...
In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no w...
Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server insta...
Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server insta...
One of the big news of the vSphere 8.0.3 (8.0 Update 3) version if the abil...
Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 (build 12.3.0.310) has been recent...
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn VMware ESXi, I/O filters can gain direct access to the virtual machine I/O path. The I/O filters are independent of the storage topology and is possible to enable the I/O filter for an individual virtual disk level. VMware offers certain categories of I/O filters, in addition, third-party vendors can create the I/O filters. Typically, they are distributed as packages that provide an installer to deploy the filter components on vCenter Server and ESXi host clusters.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMicrosoft Windows Server 2025 has been released in GA on November 1st 2024, and now there is one important 3rd party compatibility announce: Windows Server 2025 is certified on VMware platforms! Starting with November 16, Windows Server 2025 is officially certified on VMware vSphere 7.0 U3, 8.0, 8.0 U1, 8.0 U2, and 8.0 U3. These versions have been tested and validated to provide a stable, high-performance platform for running Windows Server 2025 as a guest operating system on virtual machines. For supported release details, please refer to the Broadcom Compatibility Guide.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware Workstation and Fusion are Desktop Hypervisor products used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers for demo, develop, testing and learning purposed. Those products give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn about technology, build and test software, complex systems, browsers, apps, games, and more. In May 2024, VMware has announced that VMware Workstation and Fusion Pro were free for personal use, but now there is a huge announce: VMware Fusion and Workstation are […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware Explore 2024 Europe (still in Barcelona) has just finished, but what’s news? Let’s start from some obvius things… first more Broadcom (and less VMware maybe) as you can see from the titles of the different press releases. And seems less attendees like the US edition (less than 5000 was an un-official number, that seems very low compared to other edition of this event when was still called VMworld).
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter VMware acquisition, Broadcom has start to change VMware’s licensing tring to normalize and simplify it, but also tring to maximize the possible revenew. This not not so good for all customers. Also some offering has been dismissed, like the Free vSphere Hypervisor or the basic VMware vSphere Essential bundle. And there was a force shift from a perpetual to subscription model.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsually, on one desktop machine you can only use ONE desktop hypervisor solution, because if you try to install more than once, you may have issues (for example in the virtual switch management). In the past, expecially was not possible have both VMware Workstation and Microsoft Hyper-V on the same machine, because Hyper-V works at ring -1 and this makes difficult to let Workstation runs on top.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere 8.0.3 introduces several new features and also a new snapshot management. One of the issues of VM snapshots is that people forget to delete them: according to VMware snapshot management recommended practices you shoul NOT keep snapshots for more than 3 days (I suggest to don’t keep them for more than one day, because usually you have backups as other possible restore points).
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