Virtualization
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VMware Workstation Pro Now Free for All Users Even Businesses
VMware certainly made news yesterday with the announcement that VMware Workstation Pro is now free for all users even businesses and organizations. If you remember, in May of this year, they made the announcement that VMware Workstation Pro would be…
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Broadcom Bringing back VMware vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus!
Wow, it has been a wild ride with VMware by Broadcom over the 2024 year with so many sweeping changes in portfolio simplification and licensing changes. However, I don’t have to write about how this has not been taken well…
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VMware vCenter Server VMSA-2024-0019 Critical Vulnerability Patch Released
Well, it seems like the vulnerabilities for vCenter Server and other vSphere components never end. There is a new security advisory that actually helps to continue to close off a vulnerability showcased at a Chinese hacking contest. While VMware released…
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Critical VMware vCenter Server Patch VMSA-2024-0019 – Upgrade Now!
In case you haven’t seen as of yet today, VMware has released a critical patch for VMware vCenter Server, noted in VMSA-2024-0019 for vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813. Let’s look at the vulnerabilities, the severity, any workarounds, and the process to get…
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VMware ESXi on Intel Core Ultra CPUs: Interesting Observations
Recently, I was able to play around with the Beelink SEi14 mini PC that has some really good specs AND an Intel processor that makes this VMware ESXi friendly. However, I noticed a couple of oddities and interesting things about…
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VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro Released: New Features and Harder Upgrade
If you are running VMware Workstation 17.x, the latest release, VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro, has dropped with new features to note in the new release. However, there is also the matter of a more cumbersome upgrade process as we will…
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How to Run VMmark 4 to Benchmark Your Virtual Environment and Home Lab!
I have been intrigued with benchmarking recently, with several projects, both personally and professionally, in the data center and the home lab. A great benchmark solution for virtualized environments is a program called VMmark. Its latest version is VMmark4, and…
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 New Features Accounced
Big news coming from VMware at VMware Explore 2024. They have unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9. There are many noted features that are coming with VCF 9. Broadcom is aimed at continuing their goal of IT to shift from…
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Shrink the size of vCenter Server VCSA appliance
If you have upgraded a VCSA appliance between versions, if you are like me, you have noticed the size of the upgrade disks that the vCenter Server Installer shows as required seems to double each time you upgrade. It appears…
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How to Remove an Inaccessible Datastore in VMware
There are a lot of times when I am working in the home lab and removing things and adding things, changing hardware, etc and you get things in a funky state when it comes to datastores and other configuration. I…
