VMware vSphere can scale higher than previous versions, supporting more CPU cores and more RAM for hosts and virtual machine (VM) guests (see Figure 1). For example, ESX/ESXi 4.0.0 now support VMs ...

It's easy to miss neat features that get added to really broad products, because they don't get publicized as the most important thing about the release. But the under-publicized features can also be ...

pNIC5 -> vSwitch1 -> Portgroup4 (DMZ Network) Since the key is to segregate traffic, but maintain redundancy, this at least segregates out the DMZ traffic, but leaves the hostile VM traffic still ...

Free Tripwire ConfigCheck tool sifts through the hundreds of configuration settings within VMware's ESX Server, identifies possible problems, and provides guidelines on how to fix them. Tripwire and ...

I have the combo listed in the title, and I can't figure out how to get 10Gbps speed on my Windows 10 VM. Seems to get expected speeds in TrueNAS using the VMXNET3 adapter, but in Windows 10, it tops ...

VMware's NSX hypervisor provides a platform to manage virtualized network deployments. Learn more about the network virtualization platform in this resource guide. Image: VMware VMware in 2012 made a ...

VMware offers several guides to how to harden virtual servers, but the primary ones say little about how to deal with some of the most critical issues. As I’ve discussed in previous blogs on ...