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.

In a previous article, I discussed the release of VMware's ESXi on Arm Fling. In this article, I will give an overview of my experience installing it. The ESXi on Arm Fling site has a list of ...

Both ESX and ESXi will install on almost any reasonable pile of hardware, but they won't necessarily run. VMware needs to tweak the install so ESX will install only on hardware on which it will ...

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 ...

If I install VMware ESXi on a server with a fiber channel disk array connected to it would it be possible to connect the fiber channel storage to one of the VMs like you can with USB storage devices ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

Follow these steps to create a virtual machine for macOS to be hosted by VMware ESXi running on a bare-metal server. Virtualizing systems to be hosted on higher-density servers, with its robust ...

Some virtualisation admins are slow to update VMware’s patches because they are afraid their app functions won’t work, however patches fix vulnerabilities and are a risk that must be taken. Despite ...