Virtualization
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vSphere Client 6.7 Download and Features
One of the great features of the new vSphere versions since vSphere 6.5 is the vSphere Client. It has been extremely cool to see how the various clients to access VMware vSphere have evolved over the past couple of years.…
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Upgrading NSX-T 2.4 to 2.5 Step-by-Step
With the release of NSX-T 2.5, I have been ready to get the upgrade on my current NSX-T environment. There are many great new features with NSX-T 2.5 that make it a very worthy upgrade from previous installations of NSX-T.…
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vRealize Automation 8 Install and Configuration
VMware is doing great work to consolidate many of the new cloud-centric technologies and solutions with the on-premises versions and bringing these features and interfaces to a unified stance. The new vRealize Automation 8 is a great example of this…
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VMware Network Virtualization Components and Products
Network virtualization has been described as a hypervisor for your network and that is exactly what it is in terms of what it actually does for the networking in your virtual environment. VMware network virtualization is arguably the industry leader…
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VMware vRealize Automation 8 Released New Features
One of the big new releases coming out of VMware as of late is the release of vRealize Automation 8.0. This is a huge release with many new items to note with the new major release of the platform. VMware…
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Windows Server 2019 VMware Snapshot Bug
I wanted to capture a few thoughts about an issue that has quickly received visibility today due to a late breaking article posted by The Register found here. This describes an issue that users are experiencing trying to take quiesced…
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VMware vSphere HA VM and Application Monitoring
VMware vSphere High Availability provides many different mechanisms to help ensure the availabilty of your virtual machines, and by extension your applications. More are familiar with the capabilites of vSphere HA at the cluster level with an ESXi host failure,…
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VMware vCenter Server Security Best Practices
There is no question that vCenter Server is at the core of importance when it comes to VMware vSphere environments. The vCenter Server is the centralized management plane for administering the vSphere environment and is the component that unlocks much…
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VMware NSX-T Performance Tips and Tuning
NSX-T is VMware’s virtual networking solution moving forward that is hypervisor agnostic and not specifically tied to VMware vSphere. If you are looking at moving to NSX-T as your network “hypervisor”, there are certain tweaks and hardware features that you…
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Network Best Practices for vSphere HA High Availability Clusters
One of the basic features that is built into the VMware vSphere solution when virtualizing your workloads on top of a vSphere cluster is high-availability. In fact, VMware HA is found at the Essentials Plus license level and higher. If…
