Virtualization
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Best Practices to backup VMware vSphere Virtual Machines
While containers and containerized workloads are certainly gaining momentum with organizations redesigning business-critical applications for the future, the truth is, virtual machines are here to stay for the foreseeable future. Containers and VMs work well together for most critical IT…
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ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With VMware Tools, you get a much better user experience, including video and mouse configuration. Additionally, VMware Tools provides further integration…
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How to Manage VMware Snapshots: A Guide
They can be one of the best features in a VMware vSphere environment, or perhaps the worst, depending on how they are managed and the understanding of what purpose they serve. VMware snapshots provide really great functionality and capabilities for…
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See which VMs were powered on before ESXi host went down
Have you been in a situation before where you had a standalone host go down, maybe a lab host, and after bringing everything back up, you are not sure which VMs were powered on before the host went down? I…
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Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) for ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Upgrade
VMware vSphere 7 Update 2 contains many great enhancements that I have written about here. Since Update 2 was pulled initially due to an error with the upgrade, VMware has released vSphere 7.0 Update 2a that resolves the upgrade error.…
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VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Released for Download
Well, we have been waiting for a few weeks now for the updated release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 to drop since the first release of ESXi 7.0 Update 2 was pulled due to an issue with an upgrade that…
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Restart Management Agents ESXi Impact
Many of us have certainly been there in times past. You have a host that is not responding correctly or some other issue that is weirdly affecting a specific ESXi host. You may hit a VMware KB that points you…
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VMware announces VMware Anywhere Workspace
There is no question that work from home initiatives are here to stay in at least some capacity or another for most organizations. Since the beginning of the global pandemic last year, most businesses have pivoted to work from home…
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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Native Key Provider Configuration
To take advantage of the data encryption features of vSphere, you need to have what is referred to as a key management server (KMS). Before the release of VMware vSphere 7 Update 2, you had to use a third-party solution,…
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RVtools: Free VMware best practices and health analyzer
As your VMware virtual environment grows and expands in terms of hosts, vSphere clusters, and virtual machines just to name a few, the health of your environment can deteriorate if left unchecked for best practices and other health metrics. As…
