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 ...

For organizations considering ESXi for mainstream hypervisor usage, one important consideration is disk partitioning. One of my peers in the industry, Jason Boche (rhymes with hockey) states it best ...

A significant part of navigating the complex realm of cyber threats is addressing the vulnerabilities inherent in ESXi hypervisors, a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure and virtualization. ESXi ...

I have 2 ESXi 4.1 hosts. Customer is too cheap to buy even the Essentials license... Storage is a Dell MD3000i. I setup the first host with 4 VM's, all is fine. I want the second ESXi node to access ...

Ravello Systems recently announced its new nested virtualization solution that runs VMware ESXi (ESXi) virtual clusters on popular cloud infrastructure like Amazon's AWS and on Google Cloud. Following ...

We are a 160-person media/web company with about 80 PCs and 80 Macs, roughly. We currently use vSphere 5.5 Foundation with 3 hosts and a SAN. It works flawlessly and is absolutely no trouble. I LOVE ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor. The ransomware ...

Attackers used a script written in Python during a recent ransomware attack which took just three hours, encrypting all the virtual disks on the target's virtual machine hypervisor. Andrew Brandt, the ...