A bit of background: I work for a small financial institution which is just starting to try out virtualization. ESXi becoming free couldn't have better timing. High-availability doesn't matter too ...

Learn all about backing up your virtual environment, whether with traditional backup and backup scripts, VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), or with third-party VI3-specific backup products in this ...

We have 3 hosts running ESXi 5, two for testing environments and one with a few production servers and apps (nothing critical). I only backup the VM's on the app server and I have to do it manually ...

There are various virtual machines running on VMware ESXi, which may contain core business systems, important databases, critical applications, and so on. In the event of hardware failure, software ...

Virtual simulation solutions such as VMware ESXi are required for to improve operations and optimize resource efficiency. However, with such extensive system dependence, effective protection of ...

There's a bug buried in VMware's ESXi hypervisor, the one that's embedded on x86 servers that are shipped to be used as ESX Server virtualization hosts in enterprise data centers. If it is ...