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Question When migrating VMWare virtual machine from Compellent SAN to new Dell PowerStore SAN, a minimum requirement of ESX 6.7 Update 1 on the host in order to do an Agentless Import. The ESXi installation is on SD Card. I will be upgrading the hosts (three) and vSphere to Version 7 beforehand. I have questions …

Question I am running vSphere Client version 7.0.1 with VMware ESXi, 6.7.0. I’d like to know how Storage, RAM and CPU are taken away from resources from host. I want understand how to plan for future VMs and how do I know when I need to add more Host? The detail environment about 3 ESXi …

Question When I try to unmount a datastore from the ESXi host using vSphere Web Client, an error about resource datastore is in use is showing. How can I determine what is causing the datastore to be busy? How do I unmount a datastore from ESXi Host in the vSphere Web Client when getting an …

In 2020, many organizations spun up new technologies and rolled out new processes to enable their employees to stay connected and productive while working remotely for what they thought was a finite period of time. Now, however, both employers and employees are realizing the benefits that a distributed workforce model, with people working in multiple …

Problem Symptom When attempting to install Windows 11 on ESX for example vSphere 6.7, error “This PC can’t run Windows 11” will show and prevent to proceed the installation. “This PC can’t run Windows 11” error probably caused by the installation environment not fulfill the RAM, CPU, or storage requirements especially TPM 2.0 chip. You …

Problem Symptom I’ve set the PowerChute Virtual Appliance and it works. I need to shut down the VM but can’t find the way how. The Console asks for Credentials but the only ones I have are those used to access the Web Page of the PowerChute which don’t work. The Web Page itself doesn’t list …

Problem Symptom: Rebooting production servers is always a difficult and complicated process. If you upgrade the VMware Tools from vSphere using Automatic Upgrade option, it will reboot the production server after upgrade completed. This article will show you how to prevent server from reboot automatically after VMware Tools upgrade completed.

Problem: “vSphere HA initiated a virtual machine failover action” or “HA initiated a failover action in cluster” configuration issues warning message keep showing on one of the clusters. All hosts in the cluster running fine and there is no HA error in logs too. No server was rebooted and fewer chances of host isolation since …

Inside this article, discover the many different approaches to managing VDI deployments available today – and learn how the right tools and infrastructure choices can make scalability, unexpected outages, and demand spikes easier to handle.

To maintain valuable data centre infrastructure, organizations are turning to hybrid IT strategies. But before seeing the benefits, businesses must first integrate their on-premises data centres with the off-premise cloud. This article identifies and solves 5 common data centre extension challenges organizations face.