VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

After previously writing about installing ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi, Tom Fenton walks through the process of using a USB flash drive as a local datastore on the Pi. In my previous articles on ESXi ...

Backing up your VMware ESXi host configuration is critical for disaster recovery. If hardware fails or settings are accidentally changed, a backup allows you to quickly restore the host to its ...

Broadcom’s takeover of virtualisation supplier VMware has brought changes to VMware’s product line-up and its licensing terms. VMware’s storage virtualisation technology – vSAN – is also affected.

In 2020, I went on a writing spree, producing several articles about running VMware's bare-metal, type 1 hypervisor, ESXi 7, on a Raspberry Pi 4. In fact, I wrote so many that a publisher from ...