VMware
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VMware Changing CPU License Model Limits Cores Per Processor
Today, there was big news on the licensing front from VMware with a change in future licensing for VMware vSphere. As most have been aware, no doubt if dealing with Microsoft licensing, you know the trend in the industry has…
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VMware OS Optimization Tool New Release Download
Are you running a VDI environment? Have you wondered how you need to tweak your environment for use with VMware Horizon VDI? In case you haven’t heard, VMware has a VMware OS Optimization Tool that helps prepare and optimize Windows…
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vRealize Network Insight 5.1 Download Released New Features
VMware NSX is a great software-defined network solution and is arguably the top player in this space. It allows you to have really powerful networking capabilities in your environment. Now, with NSX-T, you are not limited to a strictly VMware…
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VMware Workstation 20H1 Tech Preview Download Released New Features
A new VMware workstation tech preview release has hit the “streets” with the announcement of the VMware Workstation 20H1 Tech Preview release now available for download. It has some very interesting capabilities that will no doubt interest those who want…
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How to Install and Configure VMware Skyline
VMware Skyline is a proactive support solution from VMware that provides machine learning-enabled intelligence to troubleshooting and monitoring your vSphere environment. This includes NSX, Horizon, and other vSphere technologies. In the previous post we took a look at what is…
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What is VMware Skyline? Is It Free?
We are getting more in the day and age of automated and intent-driven operations and infrastructure. Environments and technology are moving so fast that having a human being troubleshooting the environment, especially very dense virtual environments, is a virtually impossible…
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The Stretched Cluster Feature is Not Supported On This Cluster
In the last post covering how to Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration, I touched on an issue I ran into where I was not able to disable the stretched cluster configuration of a two-node cluster using the vSphere…
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Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration
One of the upgrades that I have had planned for the home lab environment has been to migrate my 2-node VMware vSAN configuration to a 3-node configuration. Since I wanted to add more compute strength and resources to my vSAN…
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VMware ESXi Remote Install using SuperMicro IPMI
In working with the home lab recently, I had the need to reload one of my hosts remotely. It was great to have this functionality available via the Supermicro virtual media option using IPMI connectivity. Supermicro has really come a…
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Upgrade vSphere ESXi 6.0 to 6.7 in Three Ways
In the previous post, we took a look at how to Upgrade vSphere 6.0 to 6.7 – vCenter Server VCSA. Now that we have the vCenter Server upgraded to 6.7, we can now start upgrading hosts to ESXi 6.7. Let’s…
