Boot ESXi Virtual Machine From Passthrough USB
Recently, in playing around with the home lab environment, I had the need to boot a virtual machine from a USB thumbdrive that was attached to one of my ESXi…
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Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Troubleshooting VMware vSphere Performance with Opvizor Performance Analyzer 5.0.2 New Release
Troubleshooting performance of any system can be one of the most challenging tasks that administrators face on a daily basis. When it comes to virtualized environments, there is added complexity…
Cloud Computing Trends in 2019
There is no question that interest in and investment by organizations today in the cloud is continuing with fierce momentum with no one expecting this to slow down anytime soon.…
Automate Network Changes in DR for Replicated VMs with NAKIVO
There is certainly more to disaster recovery than simply backing up your data. Backups are the integral part of ensuring your data is safe. However, backups are only a small…
VMware NSX Layer 2 Bridge Configuration
I have been playing around a lot with NSX in the home lab lately and decided to revisit the NSX Layer 2 Bridge functionality especially since now much of the…
Failed to add a vSphere Distributed Switch VMkernel adapter on ESXi Host
In working with a distributed switch configuration applied to a 3-node nested vSAN cluster in the home lab, I had an issue with the initial installation of a particular vSphere…
Create VMware vSphere Distributed Switch VDS for NSX Data Center
In deploying a VMware NSX environment, one of the first things that you will want to do is create vSphere Distributed Switches for the hosts in the environment to use…
Office 2019 vs Office 365 Differences and Installation
There is no doubt that today’s software companies are moving to a “software-as-a-service” model instead of a perpetual licensing model for locally installed software. Microsoft is now delivering their Office…
Connect VMware Horizon 7.7 Connection Server to vCenter Server
As we have already covered, configuring the Horizon Connection Server and the Horizon Composer server (if using Linked Clones) are two of the first essential steps in configuring a VMware…
Upgrading NSX Data Center for vSphere Manager to 6.4.4
Recently, I have been working on the home lab and getting various components upgraded to the latest and greatest. In working on a nested VMware vSphere vSAN 6.7 Update lab…