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Security
Crypt32.dll Vulnerability Affects Hyper-V and Windows Operating Systems
Update 1.15.2020 – It appears that only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 are affected. Also, see my post here detailing the patch hyperlinks: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2020/01/download-crypt32-dll-patch-tuesday-security-rollup/ If you are running Windows Server Hyper-V to power your production virtual environments as well…
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Networking
Wireless Bridge for Disaster Recovery DR
One of the cool little home lab projects that I have been working on lately is testing a wireless bridge for DR purposes. Aside from being a cool “tinkering” project with some cool technology, it serves for me to test…
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Skyline
How to Install and Configure VMware Skyline
VMware Skyline is a proactive support solution from VMware that provides machine learning-enabled intelligence to troubleshooting and monitoring your vSphere environment. This includes NSX, Horizon, and other vSphere technologies. In the previous post we took a look at what is…
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Skyline
What is VMware Skyline? Is It Free?
We are getting more in the day and age of automated and intent-driven operations and infrastructure. Environments and technology are moving so fast that having a human being troubleshooting the environment, especially very dense virtual environments, is a virtually impossible…
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vSAN
The Stretched Cluster Feature is Not Supported On This Cluster
In the last post covering how to Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration, I touched on an issue I ran into where I was not able to disable the stretched cluster configuration of a two-node cluster using the vSphere…
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vSAN
Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration
One of the upgrades that I have had planned for the home lab environment has been to migrate my 2-node VMware vSAN configuration to a 3-node configuration. Since I wanted to add more compute strength and resources to my vSAN…
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VMware
VMware ESXi Remote Install using SuperMicro IPMI
In working with the home lab recently, I had the need to reload one of my hosts remotely. It was great to have this functionality available via the Supermicro virtual media option using IPMI connectivity. Supermicro has really come a…
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vSphere 6.7
Upgrade vSphere ESXi 6.0 to 6.7 in Three Ways
In the previous post, we took a look at how to Upgrade vSphere 6.0 to 6.7 – vCenter Server VCSA. Now that we have the vCenter Server upgraded to 6.7, we can now start upgrading hosts to ESXi 6.7. Let’s…
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vSphere 6.7
Upgrade vSphere 6.0 to 6.7 – vCenter Server VCSA
We just covered the topic of VMware 6.0 End of Life coming in March 12, 2020. If you are still running VMware vSphere 6 in your environment, now is the time to start thinking about your upgrade to vSphere 6.7.…
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vSphere 6
VMware 6.0 End of Life Coming March 12, 2020
It seems like 2020 will be starting out as the year of “end of life” for many software solutions out in the field. Microsoft is cutting ties with Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 as well as SQL 2008 with…
