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VMware Tools
ESXi VMware Tools Update Guide
VMware tools provide a tightly integrated and fluid experience between the guest virtual machines and the VMware ESXi host. With VMware Tools, you get a much better user experience, including video and mouse configuration. Additionally, VMware Tools provides further integration…
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Automation
Ansible Hashicorp Vault Storing vCenter Password
Recently I had detailed how to Install Hashicorp Vault on Ubuntu 20.04. If you followed along that post, you will see how easy it is to get a working installation of Hashicorp Vault up and running on your Ubuntu 20.04…
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VMware
VMware ESXi 7 Update 1 Boot Disk is not Found PSOD
Since upgrading my Supermicro home lab to ESXi 7.0 GA and also ESXi 7 Update 1, I have seen a couple of issues that have plagued my lab environment. One was an issue where the vSAN daemon liveness check failed…
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VMware
Dell EMC Live Optics Installation and Running against vSphere
If you have worked with Dell over the years, you have no doubt interfaced with various tools they have provided over the years to gather diagnostic and performance data for your environment. When you engage a Dell technical sales team…
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vSphere 6.7
Update VMware ESXi Hosts with Ansible
Ansible is a great tool to perform various automation tasks quickly and easily. I really enjoy using it in the home lab to automate various tasks. Have you ever wanted to update multiple standalone ESXi hosts in an automated way?…
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VMware
ESXi 6.7 Free Limitations and Features
One of the great options provide by VMware with the ESXi hypervisor today is the ability to download a free version of ESXi. There are many great things this allows you to do as a customer, an individual, a business,…
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vSphere 6.7
vSphere Client 6.7 Download and Features
One of the great features of the new vSphere versions since vSphere 6.5 is the vSphere Client. It has been extremely cool to see how the various clients to access VMware vSphere have evolved over the past couple of years.…
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Backup Software
VMware vSphere Backup Best Practices
There is no question that backing up your VMware vSphere virtual machines is an absolute necessity. If you aren’t backing up your vSphere environment, you are asking for trouble. However, even, if you are backing up your environment, there are…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 New Features
With the release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3, one of the exciting upgrades that come with the new vSphere release is an updated version of vSAN. VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 brings great new features to the table that…
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Azure
Configure Azure Site Recovery Configuration Server for VMware Replication
In the previous post, we took a look at how to Replicate On-Premises VMware VMs to Azure with Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery provides a powerful way to interact with your VMware environment and replicate virtual machines to the…
