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.

Here's how you can expose the CPU features needed to run Hyper-V on Windows 10 instance being virtualized on VMware vSphere 6.5. Recently, I needed to try out some of the new Microsoft Hyper-V ...

IT leaders at small businesses should evaluate virtualization options such as VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV ...

For the most part, I live in a world of default configurations. There are, however a number of small tweaks that I do to ESXi hosts after they have been installed to customize my configuration. While ...

It should come as no surprise that VMware entered the test lab with the most feature-rich and problem-free solution of the four vendors in this virtualization roundup. After all, this is a market that ...

VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware’s flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the ...