Virtualization

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    VMware Announces Modern Network Framework Updates

    VMware continues to introduce innovative new products and technologies that help to take enterprise services and applications to the next level of availability, performance, and security. Today, VMware Announces Modern Network Framework Updates for data center and cloud networking that…

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    VMware vSphere with Tanzu Nested Lab Networking Configuration

    VMware vSphere with Tanzu has been a hot topic for me in my lab the past couple of weeks. It has been a fun learning experience getting things up and running in the lab for use with vSphere with Tanzu.…

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    Slipstream the Latest VMware ESXi Patches into the Installation ISO

    Many Windows administrators remember the term from back in the day of “slipstreaming.” This was where you would take the latest patches that were released and you took these patches and essentially combined them into the installation media so when…

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    How to Create a vSphere with Tanzu Namespace

    No doubt, there are many like me that are having fun playing around with vSphere with Tanzu. I have been utilizing William Lam’s vSphere with Tanzu automation script to quickly deploy nested environments in the lab with just a few…

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    PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP

    Monitoring is often a not so glorious or desirable thing to do. One of those “have to haves” that, depending on the solution, can be cumbersome to configure and setup where it works properly. PRTG is a monitoring solution that…

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    Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu Workload Management

    In the previous post, I took a look at how to Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This is a prerequisite step in configuring the Workload Management configuration with vSphere networking. With vSphere 7 Update 1, you can…

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    Change from vSAN Deduplication and Compression to Compression Only?

    VMware vSAN 7U1 provides many options for managing space in the environment. Up until the release of VMware vSAN 7U1, for space efficiency, you only had the option for compression and deduplication. New with vSAN 7U1 there is a new…

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    Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes

    With VMware vSphere 7.0 U1, VMware made a great new announcement around Tanzu Kubernetes. Previously, you had to use VMware Cloud Foundation to really make use of Tanzu Kubernetes along with VMware NSX-T. However, with VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes,…

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    Add iSCSI Shared Storage to VMware ESXi-Arm

    One of the exciting things in the home lab as of late is the ESXi-ARM fling that I have installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 test box. After installing the ESXi-ARM Fling on the Raspberry Pi 4, of course, I…

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    Install ESXi-Arm Step by Step on Raspberry Pi 4

    Well, it seems like it wasn’t long ago that we saw ESXi-Arm demonstrated at VMworld. I think all of us were wondering when we could get our hands on this release of ESXi as the potential very cool and exciting…