Virtualization
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VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 End of Support Reminder
One of the downsides of the pandemic has been the last two years have been a blur. Keeping a check on end-of-life dates and other factors has been a challenge for many organizations. One of the looming deadlines that VMware…
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Identity Based Firewall configuration with NSX-T and vSphere
For years now, organizations have based application access and access to resources and files on identity. Typically, this is based on memberships to groups in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS). We have all seen this in the corporate environment…
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vSphere NSX-T installation and configuration
VMware NSX-T has certainly been rapidly maturing and has become an extremely robust and fully featured solution that transcends the VMware-only ecosystem to be a cloud software-defined networking solution for the masses. However, many customers running NSX-T will be running…
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Tanzu Community Edition 0.10 Released with Unmanaged Cluster Configuration
In case you have not heard about it as of yet, Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) is a new free solution from VMware that allows ANYONE to have a free solution with enterprise features to run Kubernetes using the Tanzu solution.…
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VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 4.4 Released with New Features
VMware Cloud Foundation provides an all-in-one solution for a complete SDDC stack that can be delivered on-premises and in the cloud. Recently VMware announced the news that VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 4.4 was released with new features. Let’s take a…
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New vCenter Server 7 Update 3c Pre-Update Check Problematic hosts
The vSphere 7 Update 3c update dropped just a few days ago and undoubtedly you guys have started updating your home lab environments and possibly even your production environments. With the vCenter Server 7 Update 3c release, VMware has introduced…
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VMware vSphere 7 Update 3c Released New Features
As you guys recall, there was a bit of a snafu with the release of VMware vSphere ESXi 7 Update 3 with some pretty major bugs that turned up in production environments. VMware decided to pull the ESXi 7 Update…
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iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device. I have been wanting to add a NAS device for quite some time and decided to pull the trigger. The…
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VMware NSX-T 3.2 Released New Features
There is arguably not another software-defined networking solution that has had the impact of VMware NSX. It has revolutionized the way organizations can carry out network operations in their environments. NSX-t of course is the way forward from NSX-V since…
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Change IP ESXi for vSAN host with VDS
I am doing a bit of network redesign in the home lab (a new post to come on that soon), for better manageability and security practices. With that being said, I had the need to move ESXi management IPs to…
