Virtualization
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VMware Workstation 20H2 Tech Preview VCTL Containers
Just a day ago, VMware posted news that a new Tech Preview had been released – Workstation 20H2. This release contains major new features and improvements. The biggest new feature with this Tech Preview is containers. That’s right, with this…
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VMware vRealize Network Insight Install Guide
If you have a VMware NSX-powered softwared-defined networking infrastructure, you have an incredibly capable platform for delivering next generation networking for your environment. However, understanding how your traffic flows, having vsibiility to the ins and outs of your now “abstracted”…
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VMware NSX Layer 7 Firewall Features
Since VMware NSX-T 2.4, VMware has introduced the ability with NSX to be able to pinpoint application identity, FQDN and URL whitelisting and provides the identity based firewall. All of these features of NSX-T since 2.4 take the platform to…
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Backup Virtual Machines with Shared Multi-Writer Disks
There are several different use cases for using a multi-writer disk on a virtual machine. I have used these for a number of different reasons. You can take a look at my post here of how to provision a “poor…
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What is VMware vSphere 7 Assignable Hardware?
VMware has introduced some serious innovation with VMware vSphere 7 across the board. One of the new features that I think is extremely powerful that isn’t getting the same attention as some of the other fetaures is the new VMware…
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Apply New ESXi 7.0 updates with vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM
If you are like me you have been waiting for updates to be released for ESXi 7 so you could try out the vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM tool to apply those updates to your ESXi 7 vSphere cluster. The new…
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What is vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM?
You may have noticed that one of the major new features with the VMware vSphere 7 release was the vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). It is a great new tool that provides a new declarative model in keeping your hosts in…
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Install VMware Horizon 7 Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate
If you have ever used Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, you know they are easy to use and free! The free part is the best part of the solution. Especially if you run a home lab, Let’s Encrypt provides a great…
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What are VMware vSphere 7 Scalable Shares in DRS?
VMware has made a lot of new improvements with the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) in VMware vSphere 7. One of these really powerful improvements that has been made is something VMware calls Scalable Shares. The new scalable shares in the…
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VMware NSX Identity Based Firewall (IDFW) Configuration in NSX-T 3.0
One of the powerful features of VMware NSX is the ability to have identity based firewalling features. This is an extremely cool feature that allows resources to be scoped not just based on traditional constructs such as VLANs and IP…
