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12 Essential Steps I Take on Every New Docker Host

I get excited when I am spinning up a new Docker container host as I think about all the new, cool workloads and projects that can be ran on it. Building up your Docker container…
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Brandon LeeFebruary 20, 2018
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Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins

When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance…
Backup Software

Brandon LeeFebruary 19, 2018
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VMware Backup with Vembu BDR Suite v3.9 Virtual Appliance

Deploying VMware solutions via virtual appliances is a great way to quickly get up and running with a preconfigured environment…
home lab

Brandon LeeFebruary 16, 2018
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Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network

When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 12, 2018
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Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster

As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and…
Processors

Brandon LeeFebruary 10, 2018
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Is Meltdown fixed in Intel Xeon D-2100 Processor?

The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 9, 2018
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Configure HCI Bench for VMware vSAN Performance Testing

In the previous post, we took a look at what the HCI Bench utility is and how it is installed…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 7, 2018
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What is HCI Bench VMware vSAN Performance Benchmark utility?

When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 5, 2018
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Update VMware vSAN Witness Appliance

I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication…
vSAN

Brandon LeeFebruary 1, 2018
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VMware vSAN Witness Host Not Found

In continuing to work with the 2-node VMware vSAN stretched cluster in the home lab, I ran into a little…
vSAN

Brandon LeeJanuary 31, 2018
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Configure vSAN Error Disk with VSAN uuid failed to appear in CMMDS

In configuring a 2-node VMware vSAN cluster with a Witness host I ran into a strange issue that took a…