Virtualization
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VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager SRM and Replication 8.2 Released New Features
When it comes to automated recovery of an entire VMware site from production to a DR facility, VMware Site Recovery Manager is the native solution built by VMware to fully accomplish this task in an automated fashion. It has grown…
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What is the VMware NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch N-VDS Deployment and Migration
The virtual network switches in VMware vSphere are the component of the virtual infrastructure that performs the heavy lifting of getting packets im and out of the vSphere virtual environment. Over the course of the evolution of VMware vSphere, VMware…
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VMware patches new Intel speculative execution microarchitectural data sampling MDS vulnerability
Perhaps the biggest security news of 2018 was the CPU flaws discovered with speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs specifically and also AMD flaws discovered as well. Over a year later now we have news of a new speculative execution…
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Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN cluster running my various home lab resources (nested, etc). Prior to this, I was running two vSphere Standard Switches on…
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Share VMDK Data Between VMs Multi-Writer Disk Without Cluster File System
Recently, in working with a client with many different lab environments, there arose the need to copy SQL backups from one lab and restore into a number of other labs. The DB in question was a DB that was around…
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Run VMware on Azure Bare Metal with Azure VMware Solutions
VMware has certainly made “cloud” a primary objective in their portfolio of offerings. Cloud is the future and where most organizations are looking to to extend their infrastructure for their needs of tomorrow. As many are already becoming familiar and…
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Upgrade to VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
VMware has tremendously overhauled the VMware vRealize suite of products over the past few releases. VMware vRealize Operations has come a long way in its journey to version 7.5 with many added features and benefits and a new focus on…
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New VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Client Developer Center API Explorer and Code Capture
In today’s fast-paced environments, automation is king of the hill. In fact in most operations environments in many businesses, it is simply not possible to do things the way they used to be done. Many if not most of today’s…
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Upgrade to VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 Update 2 with Command Line
One of the great things about ESXi from a lifecycle management and update perspective is you have multiple ways to do things. As administrators, we want to have options for various scenarios. As posted in the previous post covering the…
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Upgrade VMware vSphere ESXi to 6.7 Update 2 with VUM New Features
Well, the upgrades are beginning in the home lab for getting everything up to vSphere 6.7 Update 2. There are many ways to update ESXi to the latest version and I have to say VMware has made this process rock…
