Virtualization
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VMware vRealize Automation 8 Released New Features
One of the big new releases coming out of VMware as of late is the release of vRealize Automation 8.0. This is a huge release with many new items to note with the new major release of the platform. VMware…
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Windows Server 2019 VMware Snapshot Bug
I wanted to capture a few thoughts about an issue that has quickly received visibility today due to a late breaking article posted by The Register found here. This describes an issue that users are experiencing trying to take quiesced…
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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.…
