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vSphere 6.5
Upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline
We have looked at upgrading ESXi hosts to 6.5 update 1 using the vSphere Update Manager. Today however, we want to look at upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline. This can prove very useful especially if you…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrade to VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1 using VUM
With the release of vSphere 6.5 Update 1, we now have for many what is the release of 6.5 they were looking for as a valid upgrade candidate to their ESXi environments. Previously, we looked at upgrading our VCSA 6.5…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrading VMware vSphere VCSA Appliance to 6.5 Update 1
With the recent exciting news of the release of VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1, there are many great reasons now to upgrade from vSphere 6.0. The first step that you will want to take after validating your hardware compatibility and…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released
It is definitely a big news day today – VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released! There is certainly a lot of good stuff contained in this release from vCenter Server, ESXi, vSAN, and VMware Tools as well as exciting new…
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Computers
Upgrading VMware NSX to 6.3.2 NSX Manager
VMware NSX is an exciting network virtualization platform that is being developed at a fairly aggressive pace. Each upgrade provides additional features and or bug fixes to an existing NSX installation. VMware has a fairly ironed out process to upgrade…
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Backup Software
How Excluding Page File Affects VM backup
When thinking about making backups as efficient and timely as possible to decrease backup time windows, our backup solution needs to be as efficient as possible. This would include excluding any files that may be unnecessary to include in backups…
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NSX
Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX
One of the especially tricky things that you have to deal with when thinking about a DR situation where you have a failover to another location is network connectivity. This comes into play especially with legacy applications that may have…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX VXLAN
In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks. VMware’s NSX allows for the network to be abstracted from the underlying physical network…
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Backup Software
Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.2 Beta Released
Nakivo keeps listening to what its customers need in their environments and they continue on a rapid development cycle both of which is driving Nakivo Backup & Replication to new achievements in functionality and features. Recently, the announcement was made…
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vSphere 6.5
Install vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 Endpoint Agent
Recently, VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 which has incorporated the beautiful HTML5 interface that we have partially functional with vCenter 6.5. Additonally starting in vRealize Operations Manager 6.1, we have the inclusion of Endpoint agents. With vRealize Operations Manager…
