vmware
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vSphere 6.5
How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more difficult for it to be compromised in an attack. There…
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VMware
Configure VMware Distributed Switch Private VLANs
Segmented and securing network traffic is an essential part of traffic flows in and out of the virtual environment. Traditionally VLANs have been used as a means of separating broadcast domains and securing traffic from one group/type of traffic from…
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VMware
Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor. Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very interesting challenges with building virtual machines for high performance applications. …
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VMware
Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM? Most may think, since the virtual…
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Backup Software
VMware Backup Best Practices Checklist
When performing backups of VMware virtual machines, it is best to make sure that backup procedures follow best practices. It is often helpful to have a checklist of sorts when thinking about designing your data protection plan to make sure…
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VMware
Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification
Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of tasks from a provisioning standpoint. Thankfully, the VM Customization Specifications…
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vSphere 6.5
Reinstall VMware Tools in VMware VCSA Appliance
Recently, in working with an upgrade from VCSA 6 appliance to VCSA 6.5, I ran into a particular issue having to do with the VCSA 6 appliance not running VMware tools. In the environment, VMware tools had been inadvertently uninstalled…
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VMware
VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements
With VMWorld 2017 underway and already a couple of days gone by, let’s take a look at VMware VMWorld 2017 Announcements that have already taken place as well. Additionally, I will keep this post updated with new announcements as they…
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vSphere 6.5
Update VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with PowerCLI
There are a number of different ways to get your VMware ESXi 6.0 hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5. We have covered some of them in previous articles. However, let’s take a quick look at utilizing PowerCLI for this task with…
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vSphere Integrated Containers
Installing VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Part 1
For those used to working with VMware vSphere virtual machines in the enterprise datacenter, VMware makes the same tooling and interface experience available working with Docker containers in vSphere Integrated Containers or VIC. The really cool thing is that vSphere…
