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As you know, VMware Workstation or Fusion VMs runs on your desktop, but you don't really have a native solution from VMware to backup those VMs while they are running. You can either do a snapshot from time to time to save a point of restore manually, but you don't really...

pfSense is one of the most powerful open-source firewalls and routers available. Running it inside VMware Workstation Pro 17 (the current 2025 version) is an excellent way to build a lab or even protect a small home/office network without dedicating physical hardware. This post is detailed so if you're advanced...

Introduction Networking is one of the most critical components of any virtualized environment. In VMware ESXi, virtual machines (VMs) rely on virtual switches to communicate with each other and the external network. One of the most fundamental networking constructs in ESXi is the Virtual Standard Switch (vSS). In this guide,...

VMware vSphere Replication is a software solution designed for backup and recovery of data in virtualized infrastructures using VMware vSphere. The tool allows users to replicate virtual machines (VMs) from one site to another online, with low latency, automatically, and without the need for complex and expensive storage equipment. VMware vSphere...

In VMware environments, using NFS storage is one of the simplest ways to provide shared storage for ESXi hosts. When combined with a VMware Distributed Switch (VDS), it offers better network management, traffic isolation, and scalability across multiple ESXi hosts. This tutorial will guide you through configuring Windows Server 2022...

Virtualization has become the core of modern datacenters, and VMware vSphere remains the industry leader for enterprise-grade virtualization management. One of the most powerful and widely used features in the VMware ecosystem is vMotion—a technology that allows you to migrate running virtual machines between ESXi hosts without shutting them down,...

Configuring NFS (Network File System) storage for VMware ESXi is one of the easiest and most flexible ways to provide shared storage for virtual machines, ISO images, templates, and backups. In this guide, you will learn how to set up NFS on Windows Server 2022, create a dedicated VMkernel port...

VMware vCenter 9 (part of vSphere 9.0/VCF 9.0) is a significant update modernizing the platform with features like NVMe memory tiering, enhanced security (Trusted Domains), better container/VM management, unified operations (VCF Operations), and a new licensing model where vCenter licensing shifts under the VCF/VVF umbrella. Key benefits include cost reduction (up...

VMware vCenter Converter 9 is a powerful tool from VMware that enables physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual machine conversion between different formats (V2V). This tool allows network administrators and IT professionals to migrate existing physical infrastructure to virtual environments and increase the productivity and flexibility of their systems. Key Features of VMware vCenter Converter...

Mapping VLAN Tags to Virtual Private Cloud Subnets In a typical virtualization environment, a virtual machine (VM) sends untagged traffic out of its virtual network interface card (vNIC). By default, the virtual switch drops any traffic that has an 802.1Q VLAN tag. To allow this type of traffic, a feature...