How-To Running VMware Workstation on a Low-Cost Mini PC I ran some benchmarking tools on the ACEMAGIC AD15 Mini PC in a previous article. I found that it was very performant with its 8-core/16-thread Intel Core i7 11800H Processor. This led me to believe that VMware Workstation would perform very well on it. Workstation is … Read more
Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products. The IT goliath told The Register today “evolving customer needs and market dynamics” made it rethink its plans for the equipment, which combined a hybrid cloud software stack and Cisco’s own Unified Computing System, or UCS, servers to offer a rival to the likes of VMware and … Read more
How to Pass Host Hardware Information to a VMware Workstation VM There are various reasons why you may want to reflect the actual hardware the VM is running on rather than as a VM; by adding these three lines to the VMware configuration file, you can easily reflect this. If you’ve followed my series of … Read more
How to Autostart VMware Workstation VMs In my series of articles on using VMware Workstation on an Intel NUC 13 Pro Desk Edition PC (starting here), I configured a half dozen or so virtual machines (VMs) as thin clients so I could use them for demonstrations and testing. It worked fine, but recently, Windows 11 … Read more