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When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own…
Deploying VMware solutions via virtual appliances is a great way to quickly get up and running with a preconfigured environment from vendors. To coincide with the recent release of Vembu…
When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which…
As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in…
The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the most talked about hardware security vulnerabilities in modern history. The…
In the previous post, we took a look at what the HCI Bench utility is and how it is installed for testing VMware vSAN performance. It is the preferred tool…
When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard tool that is utilized to benchmark proof of concept environments.…
I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication environments. The patch was referencing the VMware KB article for…
In continuing to work with the 2-node VMware vSAN stretched cluster in the home lab, I ran into a little issue with the network showing as partitioned and the witness…
In configuring a 2-node VMware vSAN cluster with a Witness host I ran into a strange issue that took a bit of head scratching and Googling to figure out. However,…
