vSphere 7
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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 ESXi Upgrade
After you have upgraded to vCenter 7.0 Update 2, the next step to getting your environment updated to native vSphere 7.0 Update 2 is upgrading your ESXi hosts. There is a lot of new capabilities found in the vSphere 7.0…
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VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2 New Features
Today was big news on the VMware front. VMware today released VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 to the masses. This new release has improvements across the core VMware vSphere stack, including vCenter Server, ESXi, and VMware vSAN. For this blog…
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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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Upgrade to ESXi 7 Update 1 using vSphere Lifecycle Manager VLCM
One of the great new features that was included starting in vSphere 7 is the new vSphere Lifecycle Manager (VLCM) tool. The new tool provides a declarative approach to upgrades and updates in your ESXi environment. With the release of…
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VMware vSphere 7 Update 1 GA Released for Download
Today is beautiful news to the ears of all vSphere administrators who have been longingly awaiting the availability of vSphere 7 Update 1. The vSphere 7 U1 release contains many great features and enhancements that are well worth the upgrade…
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AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES) in VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
Most of us remember how January 2018 began. Must like how the first of this year began with unexpected events, 2018 saw the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerability come to light with Intel CPUs majorly affected by the design flaw that…
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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 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…
