This post from moullas reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while but keep forgetting! Problem: Is there any way to programmatically match up a Windows drive letter with its ...

After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

I am always looking for ways to make a physical-to-virtual conversion go better. While I love the venerable VMware vCenter Converter for most workloads, I still find situations where I can't allocate ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine (VM). Those listed files are used ...

If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...