Virtualization

  • Beginning the upgrade for VMware Horizon 8 2111

    Upgrade VMware Horizon 7.x Connection Servers to Horizon 8 2111

    VMware Horizon 8 2111 is hot off the press from VMware and no doubt organizations are looking at a maintenance window to upgrade their existing Horizon infrastructure to the latest and greatest version. VMware Horizon 8 2111 offers great new…

  • Horizon Extended Service Branch ESB

    VMware Horizon 8 2111 Released New Features

    VMware has just introduced VMware Horizon 8 2111. This release is full of new features, capabilities, and functionality between the platform, REST APIs, Horizon Console, Agents, remote experience, Blast protocol updates, Microsoft Teams enhancements, and Horizon Clients. Let’s take a…

  • Navigate to automation central in the vROPs interface

    VMware Automation with vROPs Automation Central

    There are many basic tasks that most vSphere administrators want to automate to keep a tidy and lean vSphere environment. Automating housekeeping tasks in vSphere or any other infrastructure environment helps ensure these are carried out frequently, consistently, and on…

  • Second site down and witness host down with the virtual machine still accessible

    vSAN Stretched Cluster Enhancements in vSAN 7.0 Update 3 – Simulating Failure!

    One of the really nice enhancements of the newest version of vSAN, found in vSphere 7.0 Update 3, has to do with vSAN stretched clusters. VMware vSAN stretched clusters are a configuration that I have blogged about in previous posts.…

  • Launching NUMA Observer

    NUMA Affinity VMware Fling

    When it comes down to the nitty-gritty performance details of CPU and memory with a modern hypervisor like VMware vSphere, you no doubt have heard a lot about NUMA, Non-Uniform Memory Access. NUMA is extremely important when you are working…

  • Intel Optane Persistent Memory

    What is VMware Project Capitola?

    One of the big announcements coming from VMworld 2021 is the announcement of VMware Project Capitola. What is VMware Project Capitola? How will it introduce new features for how memory is managed in future versions of vSphere? Let’s take a…

  • The Active Directory user now has access to the projects listed in the service broker catalog

    VMware Self Service Provisioning Portal with vRealize Automation

    Automation is the name of the game today with organizations needing to streamline operations and ensure the proper governance controls are in place across the board. Using vRealize Automation, VMware Identity Manager, and Active Directory, you can create a VMware…

  • The VMware Identity Manager Upgrade request completes successfully

    Upgrade VMware Identity Manager with vRLCM

    With the release of the vRealize Cloud Suite 2019 8.6 releases across the board, I have been getting my vRealize environment upgraded in the home lab. One of the key components of the vRealize Cloud Suite is VMware Identity Manager.…

  • Automated Windows 11 installation with autounattend and Packer

    Automated Windows 11 Installation with autounattend and Packer

    With Windows 11 now out among the masses, you are probably looking at deploying your Windows 11 installation in an automated way. Automated installations allow Windows 11 to be installed automatically which allows installing the operating system consistently, and for…

  • Running the VMware OS Optimization Tool in Windows 11

    Speed up Windows 11 with VMware OS Optimization Tool

    The VMware OS Optimization Tool is a tool that Horizon and VDI administrators have known and loved for years now. It takes the heavy lifting out of optimizing the OS and can literally change hundreds of settings in a matter…