Virtualization
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VMware Monitoring for Free with Telegraf InfluxDB and Grafana
There are a lot of expensive VMware vSphere monitoring tools out there from enterprise vendors that work really well and have a lot of bells and whistles to monitor VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, vCenter Server, and vSphere monitoring in…
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oVirt Install with GlusterFS Hyperconverged Single Node – Sort of
I haven’t really given oVirt a shot in the home lab environment to play around with another free and open-source hypervisor. So, I finally got around to installing it in a nested virtual machine installation running in VMware vSphere. I…
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VMware Workstation Pro Free for Personal Use Download
Well, just when we thought that Broadcom was going to charge for everything and leave home lab enthusiasts and others high and dry, they have made an announcement that may soften some of the changes we have seen over recent…
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Cannot connect to host VMware storage Migration
In moving a lot of VMs around over the past couple of days trying to get my home lab resources situated so I could start consolidating down my server resources for the hot summer months, I ran into a problem…
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VMware migration to Microsoft options
There has certainly been massive disruption in the VMware camp over the past several months. Now that the Broadcom purchase is final, Broadcom has introduced tectonic changes to VMware products, solutions, licensing, and even their partner program. It would be…
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Three Simple Things to Make VMware ESXi More Secure
If you are like me in production and home lab environments, I am always looking for low-hanging fruit to make things better, faster, more efficient, and more secure. There are three things that you can do in VMware ESXi to…
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Nutanix vs VMware in 2024
With the major shakeup happening in the virtualization industry in 2024, most organizations are looking at their options and what platform they want to move forward with. The buyout of VMware by Broadcom, price hikes, and elimination of free ESXi…
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Best KVM based Hypervisors in 2024
This may very well be the year of KVM-based hypervisors in 2024, aside from other options like Microsoft Hyper-V. Many are looking at different options this year for virtualization technologies to run their enterprise infrastructure on-premises as the fear, uncertainty,…
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How to build Xen Orchestra from Source code
Xen Orchestra (XO) is the “vcenter like” frontend tool for managing XCP-ng hypervisor. It is freely available from Vates along with the free XCP-ng hypervisor as a xen orchestra turnkey appliance (XOA). One of the extremely cool things you can…
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VMware by Broadcom Lesson: Don’t base your career on a product
I have been involved or at least associated with VMware solutions and infrastructure since circa 2004, which is quite a long time. Like most I was blown away by the technology when I first saw what it could do and…
