Virtualization
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ESXTOP commands: The Ultimate Guide
When your virtual machines or ESXi hosts hit performance snags, it’s key to know how to identify and fix these issues. A really useful tool you can use is ESXTOP. It’s a command line tool that gives live info about…
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vSphere Update Manager: Switch to vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Keeping your ESXi hosts and virtual machines updated and in sync is essential for a healthy and secure VMware virtual environment. Traditionally, this task has been handled by the vSphere Update Manager (VUM), a powerful tool that has served us…
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XCP-ng Management: Download Xen Orchestra VM
Virtualization has become the de facto standard in how companies run workloads, manage resources, and minimize costs with server consolidation and many other benefits. XCP-ng has gained traction as a robust and user-friendly alternative to commercial solutions like VMware ESXi…
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VMware ESXi installation and setup – First 15 things I do
Setting up a VMware ESXi server is a process that requires a good understanding of the technologies and best practices. I have put together a list of installation and setup steps that I run through when setting up new ESXi…
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KVM Cheat Sheet of virsh commands
KVM is an excellent choice as a hypervisor to run in the home lab environment or production. After all, Amazon runs a variant of KVM for its AWS EC2 environment. KVM is free and open-source and available in all the…
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Change vCenter IP Address – Step-by-step
If you’re managing a VMware vSphere environment, there might come a time when you need to change the IP address of your vCenter Server. You may want to move your vSphere management to a dedicated management network (certainly recommended from…
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VMware vSphere 8 Update 1 Announced – New Features including OKTA
Not long now after the release of VMware vSphere 8 and great features like the VMware Cloud console, VMware has announced VMware vSphere 8 Update 1 with great new features that span security, automation, storage, and many others. In this…
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VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison
There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere cluster resources for critical workloads. Two components in vSphere provide…
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HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage
If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on…
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VMware Multi-cloud Briefing – VMware Aria Graph and Hub
As you may already be aware, VMware is providing quarterly VMware Multi-Cloud briefings that help to bring organizations up to speed with the latest technologies and strategies for taking advantage of all the cloud has to offer. Multi-cloud is the…
