Virtualization
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VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Home Lab
I have written a few posts covering Kubernetes as of late and one of those was building out a Kubernetes home lab. In my opinion, there is no better way to learn any technology than getting your “hands dirty” and…
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IPMI Monitoring Supermicro VMware Servers with PRTG
If you are like me, you may be a bit of a monitoring geek when it comes to your home lab and production environments. Proper monitoring can help to quickly identify issues in the environment that might not be noticed…
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ESXi Install Disk not detecting HDD
Have you been in a situation where you are installing a brand new VMware ESXi host, and when you get to the point of the installer scanning for the available disks, and none are found? Just the other day, I…
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VMware Horizon Client Error Couldn’t Connect to Server
Many organizations are making use of VMware Horizon as the solution to enable a successful, effective, and efficient remote work environment. VMware Horizon is able to connect remote workers to VDI environments and even physical machines. With that being said,…
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Fix vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date
For those of you running VMware vSAN environments, have you seen a pesky error on your vSAN cluster referencing a vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date? I have seen this a few times before in the home lab…
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Avi Load Balancer VMware Standalone Install
The “software-defined” revolution has transformed just about every area of the data center in the past few years. One of the latecomers to the game has been the load balancer. However, Avi Networks has now transformed the load balancer in…
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Best Practices to backup VMware vSphere Virtual Machines
While containers and containerized workloads are certainly gaining momentum with organizations redesigning business-critical applications for the future, the truth is, virtual machines are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Containers and VMs work well together for most critical IT…
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ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With VMware Tools, you get a much better user experience, including video and mouse configuration. Additionally, VMware Tools provides further integration…
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How to Manage VMware Snapshots: A Guide
They can be one of the best features in a VMware vSphere environment, or perhaps the worst, depending on how they are managed and the understanding of what purpose they serve. VMware snapshots provide really great functionality and capabilities for…
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See which VMs were powered on before ESXi host went down
Have you been in a situation before where you had a standalone host go down, maybe a lab host, and after bringing everything back up, you are not sure which VMs were powered on before the host went down? I…
