Workstation

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    VMware Workstation 17 Pro New features and Download Link

    VMware Workstation is arguably one of the premier desktop virtualization platforms today and provides an excellent platform for development, POCs, and even home labs. I wrote about the latest Workstation beta release with some exciting new features not long ago.…

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    VMware Workstation 22H2 New features including Windows 11 and Fast Encryption

    Workstation virtualization solutions are powerful in what they can allow you to do in the home lab, production environments, development, and other areas. Recently, VMware just announced VMware Workstation 22H2. It provides really great new features and compatibility offerings as…

  • Configuring a VMware Workstation network bridged to the new VLAN tagged Hyper V network adapter

    VMware Workstation VLAN Tagging Configuration

    If you use VMware Workstation for your home lab or daily DevOps and other purposes, you may want to have the ability to have different VMware Workstation VMs reside on different VLANs. This functionality allows placing different VMs on different…

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    Move a vSphere vSAN ESXi VM to VMware Workstation

    So, in the home lab environment, I had a use case come up for moving one of my DevOps VMs from my VMware vSphere vSAN environment to VMware Workstation for better local interaction on my workstation, using VMware Workstation. VMware…

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    Network Condition Simulation with VMware Workstation Pro

    If you are a network geek like me, I am keenly interested in the features and capabilities available from a network perspective. There is a feature available as part of VMware Workstation Pro that caught my attention that can be…

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    VMware Workstation Pro 16 and Fusion 12 New Features

    VMware announced another major release in the form of the new workstation line of products today with the announced release of VMware Workstation 16 and Fusion 12. Great new technology and capabilities are found in the new release. Let’s get…

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    VMware Workstation 20H2 Tech Preview VCTL Containers

    Just a day ago, VMware posted news that a new Tech Preview had been released – Workstation 20H2. This release contains major new features and improvements. The biggest new feature with this Tech Preview is containers. That’s right, with this…

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    Run VMware Workstation 15.5.5 with Hyper-V Enabled

    If you are like me, you have used VMware Workstation for years now and have seen it go through a tremendous amount of changes and added features and functionality. There have been a few limitations along the way that you…

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    VMware Workstation 20H1 Tech Preview Download Released New Features

    A new VMware workstation tech preview release has hit the “streets” with the announcement of the VMware Workstation 20H1 Tech Preview release now available for download. It has some very interesting capabilities that will no doubt interest those who want…

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    VMware Workstation Pro 15 Released with New Features

    VMware Workstation is a great tool that personally, I use every day to work, develop, test, etc. It is a great way to perform virtualization on a desktop workstation of many flavors, including Windows and Linux based desktops. With the…