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vSphere 7
VMware vCenter 7 Content Library VM Template Versioning and Management
One of the great new features that is included with vSphere 7 and the new vCenter 7 features is VM template management and versioning. Previously to vSphere 7, there was not really a good way to keep templates versioned. Templates…
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vSphere 7
What is vCenter Server Update Planner in vSphere 7?
VMware vCenter Server 7 includes great new features and functionality that allows vSphere administrators to more effectively do their jobs in managing the vSphere environment. Lifecycle management with vCenter Server is typically a task that has previously been labor intensive…
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vSphere 7
Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager patch store
Well, I had a bit of a mishap in the home lab that, unfortunately, led to the need to restore some data 🙂 I actually had to reload a couple of hosts in the vSAN cluster. I ran into a…
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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v10.1 Beta New Features
Hot on the heels of the latest NAKIVO release, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.0, NAKIVO has released the latest beta version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10.1 beta. There are a couple of really nice features that are contained in…
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Horizon View
VMware Unified Access Gateway UAG 3.10 Upgrade
With the release of VMware Horizon 8 aka 2006, many are no doubt revisiting their Horizon infrastructure looking at updates across the board. We just recently took a look at the VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade of the Connection Server. What…
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Horizon View
VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade Connection Servers
VMware Horizon 8 has landed as general availability today per the blog post from VMware here. VMware Horizon 8 represents an evolution of the VMware Horizon product. In fact, VMware is rebranding the product now to simply “VMware Horizon”. The…
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vSAN
Upgrade VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0
There are many great advantages of the new VMware vSAN 7 with VMware vSphere 7.0. I have been running vSAN 6.7 U3 in the home lab for quite a long while now. Once backup vendors started announcing their support for…
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Horizon View
VMware Horizon 8 Announced New Features
With this year certainly being the “Year of VDI” like none other largely due to the global pandemic, organizations have had to reorganize their entire workforce to a mostly remote work layout. Organizations have had to look at solutions they…
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VMware
Dell EMC Live Optics Installation and Running against vSphere
If you have worked with Dell over the years, you have no doubt interfaced with various tools they have provided over the years to gather diagnostic and performance data for your environment. When you engage a Dell technical sales team…
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VMware
VMware vSphere Cheat Sheet
On a somewhat daily basis, I have ones that I interface with who have questions about basic VMware vSphere terminology and what these refer to and mean. While most organizations at this point have had some experience with VMware, the…
