Upgrade VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0
There are many great advantages of the new VMware vSAN 7 with VMware vSphere 7.0. I have been running vSAN 6.7 U3 in the home lab for quite a long…
Year: 2020
VMware Horizon 8 Announced New Features
With this year certainly being the “Year of VDI” like none other largely due to the global pandemic, organizations have had to reorganize their entire workforce to a mostly remote…
Dell EMC Live Optics Installation and Running against vSphere
If you have worked with Dell over the years, you have no doubt interfaced with various tools they have provided over the years to gather diagnostic and performance data for…
VMware vSphere Cheat Sheet
On a somewhat daily basis, I have ones that I interface with who have questions about basic VMware vSphere terminology and what these refer to and mean. While most organizations…
NTP Error Upgrading vCenter Server VCSA 6.7 to 7.0
I have been running VMware vSphere 7 in my nested environments for some time now. So, as of recently, I had decided to go ahead and get my production physical…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Performance PDF Download
Performance is certainly one of those “bear” things that as practitioners we have to address when working with virtualized environments. Performance can be difficult to troubleshoot at times and can…
LetsEncrypt Windows Server 2019 Configuration
When configuring today’s servers for modern workloads, there is really no place any longer for running a web server without an SSL certificate. Encrypting web traffic is a basic requirement…
VMware NSX Palo Alto Integration
Today’s network environments are more complex than ever before. The move to the public cloud and extending resources from on-premises to the cloud is not showing any sign of slowing…
Configure Wasabi Backup Repository in NAKIVO
One of the new features that I wanted to kick the tires on with the new NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 release is the backup to Wasabi cloud storage. Integrating…
Windows Server Home Lab Build and Configuration
I talk a lot about home labs on the site as I think they are a great way to get your hands “dirty” with learning new technology and skills from…