VMware

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    Check VMware Host Uptime in 3 Ways

    It is often handy to know how long your VMware ESXi host has been running, either for troubleshooting purposes, to diagnose stability issues, or to maintain a record of maintenance and other information regarding your VMware ESXi hosts making up…

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    VMware Horizon Home Lab Build

    Many of you already have a VMware vSphere home lab where you are running the latest and greatest vSphere version, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, and maybe a vSAN cluster. You may have NSX-T running in your lab as well.…

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    VMware Horizon Make Replica Connection Server Standard

    In most architecture, you never want to have a “single” of anything. You want to make sure you have multiple resources to perform a certain role in case you have one of those resources fail for some reason. This is…

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    VMware Announces Modern Network Framework Updates

    VMware continues to introduce innovative new products and technologies that help to take enterprise services and applications to the next level of availability, performance, and security. Today, VMware Announces Modern Network Framework Updates for data center and cloud networking that…

  • Routing-between-the-Frontend-Workload-and-Management-VLANs

    VMware vSphere with Tanzu Nested Lab Networking Configuration

    VMware vSphere with Tanzu has been a hot topic for me in my lab the past couple of weeks. It has been a fun learning experience getting things up and running in the lab for use with vSphere with Tanzu.…

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    Slipstream the Latest VMware ESXi Patches into the Installation ISO

    Many Windows administrators remember the term from back in the day of “slipstreaming.” This was where you would take the latest patches that were released and you took these patches and essentially combined them into the installation media so when…

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    How to Create a vSphere with Tanzu Namespace

    No doubt, there are many like me that are having fun playing around with vSphere with Tanzu. I have been utilizing William Lam’s vSphere with Tanzu automation script to quickly deploy nested environments in the lab with just a few…

  • VMware-vCenter-Server-added-to-PRTG-and-sensors-added-for-each-vSphere-object

    PRTG VMware Host Hardware Status Monitor with SNMP

    Monitoring is often a not so glorious or desirable thing to do. One of those “have to haves” that, depending on the solution, can be cumbersome to configure and setup where it works properly. PRTG is a monitoring solution that…

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    Configure VMware vSphere with Tanzu Workload Management

    In the previous post, I took a look at how to Install HAProxy in VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes. This is a prerequisite step in configuring the Workload Management configuration with vSphere networking. With vSphere 7 Update 1, you can…

  • Destaging-data-using-the-compression-only-option-with-VMware-vSAN-7U1

    Change from vSAN Deduplication and Compression to Compression Only?

    VMware vSAN 7U1 provides many options for managing space in the environment. Up until the release of VMware vSAN 7U1, for space efficiency, you only had the option for compression and deduplication. New with vSAN 7U1 there is a new…