Virtualization
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VMware vSphere HA VM and Application Monitoring
VMware vSphere High Availability provides many different mechanisms to help ensure the availabilty of your virtual machines, and by extension your applications. More are familiar with the capabilites of vSphere HA at the cluster level with an ESXi host failure,…
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VMware vCenter Server Security Best Practices
There is no question that vCenter Server is at the core of importance when it comes to VMware vSphere environments. The vCenter Server is the centralized management plane for administering the vSphere environment and is the component that unlocks much…
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VMware NSX-T Performance Tips and Tuning
NSX-T is VMware’s virtual networking solution moving forward that is hypervisor agnostic and not specifically tied to VMware vSphere. If you are looking at moving to NSX-T as your network “hypervisor”, there are certain tweaks and hardware features that you…
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Network Best Practices for vSphere HA High Availability Clusters
One of the basic features that is built into the VMware vSphere solution when virtualizing your workloads on top of a vSphere cluster is high-availability. In fact, VMware HA is found at the Essentials Plus license level and higher. If…
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VMware ESXi Commandline Get CPU and Memory Information
There are times with your virtual infrastructure running on top of VMware vSphere that you need to gather information about the physical servers you are running on. Have you ever wanted to know the details about CPU, memory, or other…
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How to Manage the NSX-T N-VDS Virtual Switch
NSX-T has a type of virtual switch that is different than the other types of virtual switches that have been used in vSphere previously. The NSX-T Virtual Distributed Switch (N-VDS) is this special virtual switch used with NSX-T that is…
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VMware Tools 11.0 Released New Features
In case you haven’t heard as of yet, there is a new VMware Tools on the block, VMware Tools 11.0. It is sporting really great new features to make note of as you upgrade your vSphere environments with the latest…
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What is VMware HCX?
Chances are if you have had your ear to the ground lately with all of the releases and solutions that have been pumping out of VMware, especially with sessions at VMworld, you have most likely seen reference to VMware HCX.…
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vCenter Update Failed Fix and Reset Banner Error
I wanted to post a quick post regarding an error received in the lab environment when updating a vCenter Server appliance that I hadn’t logged into in quite a while. There are already a few posts when ones who have…
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Configure VMware vSAN iSCSI for Windows Server Failover Cluster WSFC
VMware vSAN has had some very interesting developments in the past several releases with many great new features and functionalities added. One of the very interesting use cases with VMware vSAN is using the storage for other things besides storing…
