vmware
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Proxmox
Migrate VMware to Proxmox Using Veeam for Free
You know many think about pay for enterprise tools as something they just can’t use because they don’t have a subscription or they want to use only free and open source tools. However, using Veeam, you have access to one,…
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VMware
NVMe Memory Tiering Configuration in VMware: 4x Your RAM!
There have been a lot of new features added recently in the VMware vSphere world, and especially with VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3. Just when you think that you might find a vSphere alternative or think there is another solution…
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Proxmox
Proxmox vs ESXi in 2025: VMware Dying in the Home Lab
I can’t believe it but we are almost in 2025 already and what a year 2024 has been in the technology space with AI continuing to make waves. But who would have thought before 2024 that someone could have said…
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VMware
Broadcom Bringing back VMware vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus!
Wow, it has been a wild ride with VMware by Broadcom over the 2024 year with so many sweeping changes in portfolio simplification and licensing changes. However, I don’t have to write about how this has not been taken well…
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VMware
VMware vCenter Server VMSA-2024-0019 Critical Vulnerability Patch Released
Well, it seems like the vulnerabilities for vCenter Server and other vSphere components never end. There is a new security advisory that actually helps to continue to close off a vulnerability showcased at a Chinese hacking contest. While VMware released…
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VMware PowerCLI
PowerCLI vMotion Enable Easy Switcher Script
Have you found yourself in the position of needing to change which vmkernel ports vMotion is enabled on? Maybe you have to storage vMotion a VM to a different cluster and need to make sure that vMotion is on the…
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VMware
Critical VMware vCenter Server Patch VMSA-2024-0019 – Upgrade Now!
In case you haven’t seen as of yet today, VMware has released a critical patch for VMware vCenter Server, noted in VMSA-2024-0019 for vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813. Let’s look at the vulnerabilities, the severity, any workarounds, and the process to get…
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home lab
Perfect Home Lab 2024: MS-01s, NVMe Memory Tiering, and NVMe NAS
I think I may have found my perfect solution for home lab at least at this time. I now have two MS-01s in a cluster configuration, with NVMe memory tiering enabled and an NVMe NAS. Let me give you guys…
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Networking
Dell S5224F-ON 25 gig Switch iSCSI Configuration
Recently, I got my hands on a pair of Dell S5224f-on 25 gig switches. These were to be used for a new VMware vSphere installation for a data center refresh, along with Dell EMC storage, Dell servers, etc for a…
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VMware
How to Remove an Inaccessible Datastore in VMware
There are a lot of times when I am working in the home lab and removing things and adding things, changing hardware, etc and you get things in a funky state when it comes to datastores and other configuration. I…
