VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist
When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices. It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when…
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Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We…
Picking the right VDI Solution Management Software
Successfully deploying and managing virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI can depend on picking the right VDI Solution management software. Whether it relates to repurposing old PCs as VDI clients or…
NAKIVO Backup and Replication 7.3 Beta Released
NAKIVO is certainly blazing a trail of very quick release iterations and adding new features at a rapid pace. NAKIVO just announced the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication 7.3…
Install SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server
Microsoft has certainly been headed in a very cool direction in the past couple of years and have definitely embraced the Linux community and interoperability between Microsoft Windows and Linux.…
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID…
What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server
Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have…
Using VMware VM Storage Policies
VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage…
Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups
We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups. However, to take this a…
Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification
Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of…