Virtualization

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    VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 New Features with S3 Object Storage support

    Back in September, VMware released VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1 with excellent new features. Today, VMware is releasing news of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 New Features with S3 Object Storage support. With this release, VMware has extended features and capabilities found…

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    VMware Horizon 2012 Released with New Features

    As many know, VMware has moved to a differet system for naming new VMware Horizon releases with the not so distant VMware Horizon 2006 release. This was essentially Horizon 8, however the new number scheme is the way of the…

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    Ansible Provisioning VMware with vmware_guest Example

    Automation is certainly where it’s at these days in provisioning infrastructure. Ansible is one of the most popular automation tools across many different verticals and is extremely versatile. It works well with VMware vSphere as well to provision, configure, and…

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    VMware Horizon UAG OKTA RADIUS configuration

    When standing up a VMware Horizon production environment, you must think about securing the perimeter for end-users. We all know that passwords are one of the weakest links in your overall cybersecurity scheme. Multi-factor authentication with the very common two-factor…

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    VMware vCenter Server 7 Update 1 Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion

    By far, one of the coolest flings in existence has been the Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility. This fling has consistently been extremely popular, showing it resonated with VMware customers. What functionality has the fling provided? As the name suggests,…

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    VMware ESXi 7 Update 1 Boot Disk is not Found PSOD

    Since upgrading my Supermicro home lab to ESXi 7.0 GA and also ESXi 7 Update 1, I have seen a couple of issues that have plagued my lab environment. One was an issue where the vSAN daemon liveness check failed…

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    Backup vCenter Server to Windows File Share

    Backing up your VMware vCenter Server is of paramount importance in your VMware vSphere environment. This becomes even more important if you are running vSphere Distributed Switches and other highly vCenter-centric vSphere infrastructure. You want to protect your vCenter Server…

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    Check VMware Host Uptime in 3 Ways

    It is often handy to know how long your VMware ESXi host has been running, either for troubleshooting purposes, to diagnose stability issues, or to maintain a record of maintenance and other information regarding your VMware ESXi hosts making up…

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    VMware Horizon Home Lab Build

    Many of you already have a VMware vSphere home lab where you are running the latest and greatest vSphere version, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and maybe a vSAN cluster. You may have NSX-T running in your lab as well.…

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    VMware Horizon Make Replica Connection Server Standard

    In most architecture, you never want to have a “single” of anything. You want to make sure you have multiple resources to perform a certain role in case you have one of those resources fail for some reason. This is…