Month: January 2021

From a very simplistic point of view, in vSphere datastores are like "hard drives" where VM files are stored. Normally, there is very little direct interaction between users or administrators with datastore files, they are managed via API by vCenter, ESXi and ultimately by the users who log into the vSphere Web Client. However, there […]

ESXi hosts use VMKernel ports (vmk ports) to send and receive network traffic. Just as a regular, physical NIC, these virtual adapters have several properties that at some point we may need to know or gather for troubleshooting, design or configuration purposes. While it is perfectly possible to look for the vmk details using the […]