If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI tools. However, you may never have checked out the contents of the C:\Program Files\VMware Workstation folder after installing the ...

About six months ago, in a previous Virtualization Review article, I provided a solution for converting a VMware virtual disk into a virtual SSD (Solid State Drive) by means of the VMware ESXi command ...

Go Library for Virtual Disk Development Kit (a.k.a. virtual-disks) is a Golang wrapper to access the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit API (VDDK), which is a SDK to help developers create ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Expanding a Virtual disk is quite helpful when the Virtual Machine is running out of storage space or requires more capacity for apps and data. Moreover, executing this allows users to allocate ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...