Virtualization
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vRealize Operations Manager Dashboards Adding and Customizing
If you have access to vRealize Operations Suite, it is an awesome product to have running in your vSphere environment. With vRealize Operations Manager, you have a tremendously powerful tool to keep an eye on your vSphere environment. With vRealize…
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VMware LACP Load Balancing Mode in vSAN
When it comes to VMware vSAN and any other hyperconverged infrastructure, the network is vitally important. I have been doing some reworking of the home lab vSAN environment with the upgrade of my 10 gig network switch. I have been…
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VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Failover
If you are like me, what is the purpose of spinning up a stretched cluster in the home lab without being able to intentionally break things (queue the Tim Allen grunt). I really like doing this as it helps to…
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Configure VMware vSAN 7 Stretched Cluster
One of the coolest features in my opinion with VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster. The stretched cluster allows you to have an environment that is extremely resilient to failure and where you have all of your data on…
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VMware vSAN Home Lab 10 gig Network Switch Upgrade
Like any virtualized architecture, the network is an extremely integral part of VMware vSAN. With the software-defined architecture of vSAN, all storage activities take place across the network for the most part. If you are running an all-flash vSAN environment,…
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VMware vCenter Server 7 High CPU Patch
One thing that I have noticed since running VMware vCenter Server 7 in the home lab thus far is an issue where CPU with the VCSA 7 appliance spikes to 100% and stays there for quite a while. This seemed…
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VMware Workstation Pro 16 and Fusion 12 New Features
VMware announced another major release in the form of the new workstation line of products today with the announced release of VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12. Great new technology and capabilities are found in the new release. Let’s get…
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VMware vCenter 7 Content Library VM Template Versioning and Management
One of the great new features that is included with vSphere 7 and the new vCenter 7 features is VM template management and versioning. Previously to vSphere 7, there was not really a good way to keep templates versioned. Templates…
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What is vCenter Server Update Planner in vSphere 7?
VMware vCenter Server 7 includes great new features and functionality that allows vSphere administrators to more effectively do their jobs in managing the vSphere environment. Lifecycle management with vCenter Server is typically a task that has previously been labor intensive…
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Host cannot download files from VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager patch store
Well, I had a bit of a mishap in the home lab that, unfortunately, led to the need to restore some data 🙂 I actually had to reload a couple of hosts in the vSAN cluster. I ran into a…
