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Category: Virtualization

Enhanced vMotion Compatibility VM Migration in VMware Environments
VMware

Enhanced vMotion Compatibility VM Migration in VMware Environments

VMware has one of the coolest technologies in something called Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. It helps ensure that you can migrate virtual machines across different hosts with differen CPU generation configurations.…

by Brandon LeeJune 5, 2024June 5, 2024
VMware Monitoring for Free with Telegraf InfluxDB and Grafana
VMware

VMware Monitoring for Free with Telegraf InfluxDB and Grafana

There are a lot of expensive VMware vSphere monitoring tools out there from enterprise vendors that work really well and have a lot of bells and whistles to monitor VMware…

by Brandon LeeMay 24, 2024May 24, 2024
oVirt Install with GlusterFS Hyperconverged Single Node – Sort of
Virtualization

oVirt Install with GlusterFS Hyperconverged Single Node – Sort of

I haven’t really given oVirt a shot in the home lab environment to play around with another free and open-source hypervisor. So, I finally got around to installing it in…

by Brandon LeeMay 20, 2024May 20, 2024
VMware Workstation Pro Free for Personal Use Download
VMware

VMware Workstation Pro Free for Personal Use Download

Well, just when we thought that Broadcom was going to charge for everything and leave home lab enthusiasts and others high and dry, they have made an announcement that may…

by Brandon LeeMay 14, 2024May 14, 2024
Cannot connect to host VMware storage Migration
VMware

Cannot connect to host VMware storage Migration

In moving a lot of VMs around over the past couple of days trying to get my home lab resources situated so I could start consolidating down my server resources…

by Brandon LeeMay 3, 2024May 3, 2024
VMware migration to Microsoft options
Virtualization

VMware migration to Microsoft options

There has certainly been massive disruption in the VMware camp over the past several months. Now that the Broadcom purchase is final, Broadcom has introduced tectonic changes to VMware products,…

by Brandon LeeMarch 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Three Simple Things to Make VMware ESXi More Secure
VMware

Three Simple Things to Make VMware ESXi More Secure

If you are like me in production and home lab environments, I am always looking for low-hanging fruit to make things better, faster, more efficient, and more secure. There are…

by Brandon LeeMarch 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Nutanix vs VMware in 2024
Virtualization

Nutanix vs VMware in 2024

With the major shakeup happening in the virtualization industry in 2024, most organizations are looking at their options and what platform they want to move forward with. The buyout of…

by Brandon LeeMarch 18, 2024March 18, 2024
Best KVM based Hypervisors in 2024
Virtualization

Best KVM based Hypervisors in 2024

This may very well be the year of KVM-based hypervisors in 2024, aside from other options like Microsoft Hyper-V. Many are looking at different options this year for virtualization technologies…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 26, 2024August 21, 2024
How to build Xen Orchestra from Source code
XCP-ng

How to build Xen Orchestra from Source code

Xen Orchestra (XO) is the “vcenter like” frontend tool for managing XCP-ng hypervisor. It is freely available from Vates along with the free XCP-ng hypervisor as a xen orchestra turnkey…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 23, 2024February 23, 2024

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