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    VMware Horizon UAG OKTA RADIUS configuration

    When standing up a VMware Horizon production environment, you must think about securing the perimeter for end-users. We all know that passwords are one of the weakest links in your overall cybersecurity scheme. Multi-factor authentication with the very common two-factor…

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    VMware vCenter Server 7 Update 1 Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion

    By far, one of the coolest flings in existence has been the Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility. This fling has consistently been extremely popular, showing it resonated with VMware customers. What functionality has the fling provided? As the name suggests,…

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    VMware ESXi 7 Update 1 Boot Disk is not Found PSOD

    Since upgrading my Supermicro home lab to ESXi 7.0 GA and also ESXi 7 Update 1, I have seen a couple of issues that have plagued my lab environment. One was an issue where the vSAN daemon liveness check failed…

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    Backup vCenter Server to Windows File Share

    Backing up your VMware vCenter Server is of paramount importance in your VMware vSphere environment. This becomes even more important if you are running vSphere Distributed Switches and other highly vCenter-centric vSphere infrastructure. You want to protect your vCenter Server…

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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…

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    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…