VMware
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VMware vCenter Server 7 High CPU Patch
One thing that I have noticed since running VMware vCenter Server 7 in the home lab thus far is an issue where CPU with the VCSA 7 appliance spikes to 100% and stays there for quite a while. This seemed…
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VMware Workstation Pro 16 and Fusion 12 New Features
VMware announced another major release in the form of the new workstation line of products today with the announced release of VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12. Great new technology and capabilities are found in the new release. Let’s get…
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VMware vCenter 7 Content Library VM Template Versioning and Management
One of the great new features that is included with vSphere 7 and the new vCenter 7 features is VM template management and versioning. Previously to vSphere 7, there was not really a good way to keep templates versioned. Templates…
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What is vCenter Server Update Planner in vSphere 7?
VMware vCenter Server 7 includes great new features and functionality that allows vSphere administrators to more effectively do their jobs in managing the vSphere environment. Lifecycle management with vCenter Server is typically a task that has previously been labor intensive…
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Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager patch store
Well, I had a bit of a mishap in the home lab that, unfortunately, led to the need to restore some data 🙂 I actually had to reload a couple of hosts in the vSAN cluster. I ran into a…
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VMware Unified Access Gateway UAG 3.10 Upgrade
With the release of VMware Horizon 8 aka 2006, many are no doubt revisiting their Horizon infrastructure looking at updates across the board. We just recently took a look at the VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade of the Connection Server. What…
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VMware Horizon 8 Upgrade Connection Servers
VMware Horizon 8 has landed as general availability today per the blog post from VMware here. VMware Horizon 8 represents an evolution of the VMware Horizon product. In fact, VMware is rebranding the product now to simply “VMware Horizon”. The…
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Upgrade VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0
There are many great advantages of the new VMware vSAN 7 with VMware vSphere 7.0. I have been running vSAN 6.7 U3 in the home lab for quite a long while now. Once backup vendors started announcing their support for…
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VMware Horizon 8 Announced New Features
With this year certainly being the “Year of VDI” like none other largely due to the global pandemic, organizations have had to reorganize their entire workforce to a mostly remote work layout. Organizations have had to look at solutions they…
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Dell EMC Live Optics Installation and Running against vSphere
If you have worked with Dell over the years, you have no doubt interfaced with various tools they have provided over the years to gather diagnostic and performance data for your environment. When you engage a Dell technical sales team…
