vmware
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VMware PowerCLI
Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management
PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint. I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…
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Software
Automate VMware Best Practices with Runecast Analyzer
One of the words that we typically hear a lot in the IT industry especially when thinking about configurations of hardware and software is “best practices”. It is certainly important to make sure we configure our software and hardware according…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install
If you haven’t updated your VMware PowerCLI installation in a while, you will be interested to know there is a new way to install VMware PowerCLI. With the release of VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1, we can now pull the PowerShell module…
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NSX
Add VMware NSX Identity Source Domain
VMware NSX is a powerful tool to not only abstract your virtual networking from the underlying physical infrastructure, but also secure your environment. As we had shown in the previous post, we can easily create firewall rules to restrict access…
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NSX
Secure Home Lab DMZ network with VMware NSX firewall
With the recent announcement from VMUG that Advantage subscribers now have access to VMware NSX, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the VMware home lab environments out there. VMware NSX has a ton of network security benefits that…
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Backup Software
Nakivo announces QNAP NAS based VM Backup appliances
Nakivo continues to innovate with its products and offerings to extend backup solutions to a wide range of environments and hardware. I personally have had the opportunity to work with Nakivo in a wide range of settings and they are…
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VMware
Configure FreeNAS 9.10 NFS VMware ESXi 6 datastore
Many choose to use NFS as opposed to iSCSI in their VMware vSphere environments. NFS has a lot of benefits and use cases particularly when we look at the efficiency of NFS. With NFS there is no encapsulation that needs…
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Horizon View
VMware Horizon View 7.1 Customization operation timed out
I had mentioned this in the previous post about setting up a dedicated workstation pool for Horizon with Linked clones. I wanted to write up a separate post on this issue just to detail a bit more what the error…
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Horizon View
Create Dedicated Linked Clones with VMware Horizon View 7.1
If we do not want to use or do not have the licenses for using Instant Clones in our VMware Horizon View 7.1 environment, we can opt to use Linked Clones. Or, we may choose Linked Clones instead of instant…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN 6.6 Configuration and new features
With the recent release of the vSphere 6.5d update, VMware vSAN 6.6 is added as part of the update. VMware vSAN 6.6 includes many enhancements to the technology as each iteration brings maturity to the technology. VMware’s vSAN is one…
