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vSphere 6.7
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 New Features Installing and Upgrading
Yesterday held very exciting news for the VMware community with vSphere 6.7 being released as GA. VMware has certainly kept everyone “wanting more” with every release of products and they have certainly been on a roll with captivating their customer…
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vSphere Integrated Containers
Upgrade VMware vSphere Integrated Containers VIC Appliance
For those who are running the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance in your vSphere environment getting your feet wet with VIC, we saw the release of VIC 1.2 in conjunction with VMWorld 2017 and now just a couple of days ago…
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NSX
Upgrading VMware NSX Manager to 6.3.1
With the release of VMware NSX 6.3, we now have NSX compatibility with vSphere 6.5a and higher. Recently released was the upgrade patch to upgrade to NSX 6.3.1 which is mostly a bug fix release with specific customer bugs. In…
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Backup Software
Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM
A few days ago I wrote a post about the Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration which showed the installation and config of the new Beta 2 of the Windows agent. Let’s take a look at a common scenario…
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vSphere 6.5
New VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Backup
With the new VCSA 6.5 appliance, there is new functionality to backup the VCSA appliance builtin to the VAMI interface. ย You will notice there is a new “Backup” button over in the upper right hand corner. ย Let’s take a look…
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Backup Software
Upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication 9.0 to 9.5
Well, there have been so many awesome releases lately with VMware releasing vSphere 6.5 and now Veeam releasing Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 and B&R 9.5 as well. ย Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 contains some really exciting enhancements to the 9.X…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrade VMware vCenter VCSA appliance 6.0 to 6.5
The core of all vSphere functionality is vCenter server. ย VMware has definitely embraced and chosen the VCSA appliance as the way forward in version 6.5. ย VCSA 6.5 has all of the functionality of the Windows vCenter server including Update manager…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5
With the release of vSphere 6.5, most will be thinking about upgrading hosts and vSphere infrastructure to 6.5. ย Let’s take a look at the process of upgrading VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 on a ESXi 6.0 U2 host. ย As mentioned…
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home lab
Update Supermicro BIOS using IPMI SUM
I really like the Supermicro IPMI interface for remotely performing administrative tasks as well as monitoring the health of the Supermicro server hardware. ย One of the really cool things that you can do remotely is update the motherboard BIOS firmware…
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Windows Server 2016
Prepare Active Directory Windows Server 2016 DC Adprep
With the RTM release of Windows Server 2016, many will be thinking about and looking to introduce a Windows Server 2016 domain controller into their existing Active Directory environments. ย Let’s take a look at how to prepare Active Directory Windows…