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home lab
Do You Really Need a Full-Sized Rack for Your Home Lab in 2025?
In 2025, home labs are more powerful and smaller than ever, thanks to mini PCs. Mini PCs with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors now have up to 32 threads or more and can…
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vSAN
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…
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Processors
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…
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vSAN
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…
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vSAN
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…
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vSAN
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…
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vSAN
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…
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vSAN
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…
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vSAN
Install and Configure VMware vSAN Witness Appliance in VMware Workstation
Update 1.30.2018 – Password issues with the vSAN Witness Appliance on legacy VMware Workstation versions One of the really great…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX Guest Introspection and how is it configured?
VMware NSX provides powerful insight into network traffic and it allows administrators to handle traffic based on very powerful criteria,…
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Storage
Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance installation and configuration
One of the great resources for home lab environments is vendor released virtual storage appliance software solutions that emulate models…
