Roll Back VMware Meltdown and Spectre Microcode Patch
Update 1.24.2018 with William Lam PowerCLI code link The last several days have certainly been a rollercoaster ride for VMware administrators and others who have been keeping a close eye…
Year: 2018
Configure VMware vSphere Encryption Key Management Server Cluster
One of the exciting features with vSphere 6.5 is the ability to perform virtual machine encryption. We have already taken a look at Hytrust KeyControl as a great way to…
Delete VMware Distributed Virtual Switch The Resource Is In Use
Recently, in working with the home lab environment, moving hosts around, playing around with various networking, etc, I ran into an issue with a distributed virtual switch (DVS) I had…
VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems Update…
Vembu BDR Suite 3.9 New Features
Vembu has recently announced the upcoming release of Vembu BDR Suite 3.9. Vembu continues to innovate in their already very full-featured, all-inclusive backup product. Vembu’s BDR Suite product covers data…
10 Gig Switch for Home Lab
For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for purposes of vMotion, vSAN, etc. Unfortunately, 10 gig ports are…
Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines
There are many products out there that support live backups of enterprise hypervisors such as VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V and others. However, you are hard pressed to find a…
New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?
Update 1.11.2018 – Script from William Lam to check VMs and Hosts/Clusters ***Update 1.9.2018 – VMware releases CPU microcode update as part of hypervisor-assisted guest remediation with VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004, new Hypervisor-Assisted…
Veeam Restore VM hardware version is not supported by destination host
After shipping a Veeam backup to another site location and attempting to restore, I ran into an issue the other day with a Veeam restore due to different vSphere versions…