This is the last part of the article on the Migration of physical machines to the VMware virtual environment. In the first part of the series, we looked at the basics that need to be understood before migrating your workloads from physical to virtual. In the second part, we looked at VMware’s free migration tool – VMware vCenter […]
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Physical to Virtual Migration – Part 2
In the first part of the series, we looked at the basics that need to be understood before migrating your workloads from physical to virtual – the difference between Physical and Virtual infrastructure, Pros and Cons of Virtual environment, and considerations that need to be checked before migration. In this second part, we will take a […]
Read MoreConvert VHD to VHDX using Hyper-V Manager and Powershell
Windows 8 Client Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V onwards VHDX is the new and default format of the virtual hard disk (VDH). Till Hyper-V 2008, everyone was using VHD format and it has many limitations and once the VHDX was available it had many enhancements and everyone started upgrading to the next server version […]
Read MoreReclaiming Space using TRIM UNMAP in Windows
Most legacy operating systems integrally do not have the capability to reclaim the space when a host performs large delete operations from a thin provisioned volume without rewriting new data into the deleted space. This deletion may perform by an application or guest operating system. Dead Space Reclamation process enables to reclaim the previously allocated […]
Read MorePhysical to Virtual Migration – Part 1
This article on the migration of physical machines to the VMware virtual environment will be a three-part series. In this first part, we will take a look at the following: Difference between Physical and Virtual infrastructure Benefits of migrating to a virtual environment Pros and Cons of Virtual environment How to move from physical to […]
Read MoreVMware vSphere Snapshot Formats on VMFS
A snapshot is a copy of the virtual machine’s disk file (VMDK) at a given point in time and preserves the state and data of a virtual machine at the time you take the snapshot. In this article will share basic information of what is a snapshot and different snapshot formats available on VMFS and […]
Read MoreVMware announcing vSphere 6.7 Update 3
VMware announces the future release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 with many enhancements and new features. The main goal is to provide a highly performant, efficient and more secure hybrid cloud platform to VMware partners and customers. Enhancements and new features with this release will help to simplify the operations and increased performance. Let’S […]
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