Virtualization, in computing, refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources.
The term “virtualization” traces its roots to 1960s mainframes, during which it was a method of logically dividing the mainframes’ resources for different applications. Since then, the meaning of the term has evolved to the aforementioned
The OVF in vSphere is not just about deployment and packaging. There is also a runtime part, namely the OVF environment. This is a feature that has been around since the early days of vSphere 4.x, if not earlier which…
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. For example, the following features are just some of the features that are available only…
There are two ways to enable / diable VAAI plugin, One via command line and one via vSphere Client UI Using command line Login to ESXi using putty / terminal Use “esxcfg-advcfg” command to manage your VAAI settings To Check…
VAAI vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) is a technology that VMware makes available for storage vendors to offload the storage operation like cloning , space reservation from the ESX CPU to the storage array. What is VAAI? VMware vStorage…
While adding a pool in VMware Horizon View Administrator, you may come across the situation where you get an error “unable to retrieve information from Active Directory for domain null” The domain field drop-down may be empty and you cannot…
Nested ESX / Virtualization Nested ESX / Virtualization is the ESX or any hypervisor running as a pseudo-machine, in this blog we will see how to set up ESXi 5.1 as a VM in ESXi 5.1 and Installing ESXi 5.1…