Virtualization
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Configure VMware Distributed Switch Private VLANs
Segmented and securing network traffic is an essential part of traffic flows in and out of the virtual environment. Traditionally VLANs have been used as a means of separating broadcast domains and securing traffic from one group/type of traffic from…
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Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor. Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very interesting challenges with building virtual machines for high performance applications. …
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Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM? Most may think, since the virtual…
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Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…
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What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server
Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have to face when troubleshooting or trying to identify potential problems…
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Using VMware VM Storage Policies
VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual…
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Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups
We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups. However, to take this a step further, what if you want to secure the backup…
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Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification
Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of tasks from a provisioning standpoint. Thankfully, the VM Customization Specifications…
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New VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML5 Web Client Features with Fling
VMware is showing great commitment to the development of the new HTML5 web client and are quickly releasing new features and functionality. How can you use the new HTML5 web client features and functionality before they make it into the…
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What is VMware Changed Block Tracking
Most of today’s backup solutions that interact with VMware vSphere environments are able to use a technology called Changed Block Tracking (CBT) which allows taking incremental backups of virtual machines much more efficient which allows much smaller and quicker backups…
