Virtualization
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VMware Virtual Machine Encryption Key Management
One of the exciting new features included with VMware vSphere 6.5 is the ability to encrypt VMware virtual machines by using a native encryption process that is managed at the hypervisor level.  Since the encryption is done at the hypervisor level,…
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Upgrade VMware Tools to Latest Version
Installing VMware Tools on running virtual machines in a VMware vSphere environment is best practice and a great way to make sure the running virtual machines perform at their best. Having VMware Tools running as well is a necessary requirement…
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How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more difficult for it to be compromised in an attack. There…
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VMware Hands On Labs Learning Resource
All of us who are virtualization engineers are constantly trying to acquire new skills and polish the skills we already have. If you are like me, you are looking for learning resources or trying to find good ways of test…
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Configure VMware Distributed Switch Private VLANs
Segmented and securing network traffic is an essential part of traffic flows in and out of the virtual environment. Traditionally VLANs have been used as a means of separating broadcast domains and securing traffic from one group/type of traffic from…
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Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor. Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very interesting challenges with building virtual machines for high performance applications. …
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Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM? Most may think, since the virtual…
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Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…
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What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server
Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have to face when troubleshooting or trying to identify potential problems…
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Using VMware VM Storage Policies
VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual…
