VMware ESXi is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers by integrating vital OS components, such as a kernel; since as a type-1 hypervisor ...

Does the server have light-out mgmt? You can upgrade the BIOS via that. That takes care of the host. ESXi updates can be done through a vCenter.

The ESXi installer is freely downloadable from www.vmware.com. Users indicate the maximum number of physical hosts on which ESXi will be installed (up to 999), and then VMware will e-mail registration ...

In a previous article, I discussed the release of VMware's ESXi on Arm Fling. In this article, I will give an overview of my experience installing it. The ESXi on Arm Fling site has a list of ...

Ah, Day Five of my VMware 5.0 training trek is finally here and with it comes HA Clustering, Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), Patch Management and ESXi Installation. VMware's fault tolerance and ...

I have a Windows 2008 server which has just died. It hosted some low-usage IIS sites (some with supporting SQL Server databases), and a few media and file server applications (e.g Logitech Media ...

This first article of a three-part series on Photon OS steps you through how to install and use the lightweight Linux distribution as a base OS for your Linux project. Photon OS, a lightweight Linux ...