Virtualization
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VMware vSAN Direct configuration and requirements
VMware continues to evolve the VMware vSAN solution, giving organizations even more storage options with their VMware vSAN configurations in a vSAN cluster. One of those options is the VMware vSAN direct capability as part of the vSAN data persistence…
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vSAN Witness Appliance Deployment
One of the powerful deployments of VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster configuration. With vSAN stretched cluster, the vSAN data nodes have a vSAN stretched cluster datastore between them, making your data highly available at both locations or fault…
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VMware vRealize Automation 8.9 Released New Features with Kubernetes Automation
Automation is king today in the enterprise data center to get things done consistently, quickly, and in a way that can be versioned. New application development is a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations adopt and use new modern…
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VMware NSX-T 4.0.0.1 has a new name and new features!
In case you missed the announcement a few days back, the latest release of VMware NSX-T has landed with new features and functionality and also a new name for VMware NSX-T. Let’s take a look at the new version of…
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ESXi Change Hostname with GUI and Command Line
When it comes to the day-to-day management of VMware ESXi hosts, there are many activities a VI admin may need to carry out with ESXi hosts in the environment. While changing the hostname of an ESXi host in the environment…
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VMware Workstation 22H2 New features including Windows 11 and Fast Encryption
Workstation virtualization solutions are powerful in what they can allow you to do in the home lab, production environments, development, and other areas. Recently, VMware just announced VMware Workstation 22H2. It provides really great new features and compatibility offerings as…
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vRealize Automation SaltStack Config Installation using vRSLCM
Back in VMworld 2020, VMware announced the acquisition of SaltStack, the enterprise offering of the Salt automation platform. Since then, it has been integrated with the vRealize Automation solution with SaltStack Config. You can still download the free CLI Salt…
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What’s new in VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3f and ESXi 7.0 Update 3f
Guys heads up. There is a new vCenter Server update and ESXi hosts update to take note of. The new vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3f release and ESXi 7.0 Update 3f release take care of quite a few security vulnerabilities.…
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Upgrade vRealize Automation with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager vRSLCM
I have been doing a bit of upgrading and updating the home lab environment recently. One of the solutions that I run in my VMware-powered home lab environment is vRealize Automation. I have this, and my vRealize Operations Manager environments…
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XCP-NG in VMware nested virtualization
As many of you may already know from reading my previous blog posts, I really like playing around with hypervisors and different technologies. The nested virtualization capabilities in VMware vSphere provide a great way to do this without the need…
