Installing Ubuntu 16.04 as a virtual machine (VM) on ESXi is a relatively simple process, provided you know how to work around some of the "gothcas" that can complicate the process. In this article, I ...

The best way to learn about virtualization is with your own lab. When most people think of a lab, they picture a closet housing a group of servers that cost several thousand dollars. While there are ...

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.

Last weekend we shutdown our 2 node VMWare ESXi cluster, managed by vCenter Server Appliance 5.0.0.3324 Build 472350 (which uses the embedded DB2 database). There was some building work going on and ...