New Server Network Rack for Home Virtualization Lab Environment
One of the side projects that I have been working on in the past few days has been migrating away from my old style “bread rack” for the home lab…
Year: 2019
PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another
Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the…
VMware Horizon 7.8 Released with New Features
VMware has been on an extremely agressive release cycle with their End User Computing technology, better known as VMware Horizon over the course of the past several months. Just a…
Top Security Threats and Responses in 2019 and Ahead
There is no shortage of security concerns in the world of technology today. It seems like there are news headlines almost every week of data breaches, ransomware infections, and other…
VMware vExpert Program – Honored to be Selected
This year I wanted to create a blog post highlighting the VMware vExpert program and was on my list of goals for last year but didn’t get it done. I…
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct represents the latest and greatest software-defined storage solution from Microsoft that can be used with Hyper-V for true software-defined storage backed virtual machines. We…
VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 Unable to Update Release Catalog Error
In the home lab, I have noticed recently an ongoing warning with the vSAN release catalog up-to-date check. The VMware vSAN release catalog provides information to vSAN build recommendation engine…
Monitoring VMware vSphere Infrastructure with Paessler PRTG
Monitoring an environment is one of the most complex tasks that administrators are tasked with doing in an environment. Today’s VMware vSphere administrators may have multiple hosts, vCenter Servers, switches,…
Deploy VMware NSX-T 2.4 Edge Transport Appliance VM
More VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 fun! Working through deploying NSX-T 2.4 in the home lab and stepping through the various functional components of getting the lab up and running…
What Is VMware Service-Defined Firewall Released?
Security is perhaps one of the most talked about and exciting areas of IT operations today as it is constantly evolving and making use of new technologies to stop the…