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  • VMwareRunecast-Analyzer-REST-API-explorer

    Runecast Analyzer VMware Best Practices new REST API Integration

    As we have covered before, Runcast Analyzer for VMware vSphere is a tremendously powerful product to ensure the health and to automate best practices discovery for your environment. Runecast continues to show they are forward thinking with the inclusion of…

  • VMwareVMware-Photon-OS-1.0-Booting

    What is VMware Photon OS?

    Today most vendors are putting a lot of emphasis on “cloud native” applications.  Cloud native applications are geared toward containers and containerized applications.  This makes possible running microservices inside containers with the ability to function in cloud computing environments and…

  • vSphere 6.5vSphere-6.5-Update-1-Add-Distributed-Switch-to-Hosts

    Upgrading VMware vSphere VCSA Appliance to 6.5 Update 1

    With the recent exciting news of the release of VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1, there are many great reasons now to upgrade from vSphere 6.0. The first step that you will want to take after validating your hardware compatibility and…

  • vSphere 6.5vsphere65U1_feat

    VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released

    It is definitely a big news day today – VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 Released!  There is certainly a lot of good stuff contained in this release from vCenter Server, ESXi, vSAN, and VMware Tools as well as exciting new…

  • NSXCreating-a-new-VMware-NSX-Logical-Switch

    What is VMware NSX VXLAN

    In today’s world, resources are virtualized and abstracted from the underlying physical hardware.  We see this in the world of hypervisors including compute, storage, and networks.  VMware’s NSX allows for the network to be abstracted from the underlying physical network…

  • VMwaredrsfling05

    VMware DRS Fling graphical visibility tool

    I had seen just a day or so ago via a tweet by @DuncanYB that a new fling was released giving us a graphical interface to see DRS data from vCenter – very cool!  I wanted to give it a…

  • VMwarestorcli04

    Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi

    In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your Avago/LSI card with the Avago Storage Manager utility. However, may…

  • NSXvrni22

    What is VMware vRNI and How to Install

    With the recent announcement from VMUG that the NSX offering includes VMware vRNI, you may be asking yourself if you are a VMUG subscriber – What is VMware vRNI?  VMware NSX is a powerful SDN solution that has been transforming…

  • VMwarenetwvm01

    Audit VMware vSphere changes with Netwrix Auditor

    Auditing is one of those challenging areas in IT that has always been a sore thumb subject to most administrators. Auditing has traditionally not been an easy thing to do. Sure it is easy to enable all the audit switches…

  • NSXvmugvrni02

    VMUG VMware vRNI bundled with NSX offering

    As we had posted a while back, VMUG Advantage Evalexperience had seriously sweetened the already sweet deal of the Advantage subscription by adding in VMware NSX to the mix. This was the real major remaining piece to round out the…