Virtualization
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Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your Avago/LSI card with the Avago Storage Manager utility. However, may…
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What is VMware vRNI and How to Install
With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI? VMware NSX is a powerful SDN solution that has been transforming…
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Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect a remote Storage Manager utility to the server and interact…
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Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability of…
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Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor
Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do. Sure it is easy to enable all the audit switches…
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VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering
As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This was the real major remaining piece to round out the…
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Add VMware NSX Identity Source Domain
VMware NSX is a powerful tool to not only abstract your virtual networking from the underlying physical infrastructure, but also secure your environment. As we had shown in the previous post, we can easily create firewall rules to restrict access…
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Secure Home Lab DMZ network with VMware NSX firewall
With the recent announcement from VMUG that Advantage subscribers now have access to VMware NSX, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the VMware home lab environments out there. VMware NSX has a ton of network security benefits that…
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Configure FreeNAS 9.10 NFS VMware ESXi 6 datastore
Many choose to use NFS as opposed to iSCSI in their VMware vSphere environments. NFS has a lot of benefits and use cases particularly when we look at the efficiency of NFS. With NFS there is no encapsulation that needs…
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VMUG Advantage EvalExperience adds VMware NSX
We had written a blurb just a little while ago about the hinting of the addition of VMware NSX to VMUG Advantage EvalExperience. This was an exciting rumbling as it has been a highly requested addition that would simply sweeten…
