After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

This post from moullas reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while but keep forgetting! Problem: Is there any way to programmatically match up a Windows drive letter with its ...

VMware created the Virtual Machine Disk -- VMDK -- format to make it easier to share its virtual machines, or VMs, with products produced and sold by other companies. By default, Oracle Corporation's ...

There's a new way to speed up read operations on your VMs. The new VMware-developed vFlash server-side read caching, announced at VMworld 2013 as part of VMware vSphere 5.5, aims to dramatically ...