Three Simple Things to Make VMware ESXi More Secure
If you are like me in production and home lab environments, I am always looking for low-hanging fruit to make things better, faster, more efficient, and more secure. There are…
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ESXi Change Hostname with GUI and Command Line
When it comes to the day-to-day management of VMware ESXi hosts, there are many activities a VI admin may need to carry out with ESXi hosts in the environment. While…
iSCSI Synology VMware Configuration step-by-step
One of the lab additions made in the past couple of weeks is a new Synology DS1621xs+ 6-bay NAS device. I have been wanting to add a NAS device for…
vCenter Update Failed Fix and Reset Banner Error
I wanted to post a quick post regarding an error received in the lab environment when updating a vCenter Server appliance that I hadn’t logged into in quite a while.…
Share VMDK Data Between VMs Multi-Writer Disk Without Cluster File System
Recently, in working with a client with many different lab environments, there arose the need to copy SQL backups from one lab and restore into a number of other labs.…
Install Nested Nutanix CE in VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 Update 1
One of the great things about virtualization is “nested virtualization“. This is where you can run a hypervisor inside a virtual machine running on another hypervisor. One of the really…
VMware vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released New Features
Update The Download links for vSphere 6.7 Update 1 have been posted*** One of the major news items coming out of VMWorld and no doubt the first of many to…
Tools to Improve Virtual Machine Performance
One of the key areas that a VMware virtualization administrator must key in on with his or her vSphere environment is performance. After all if the production workloads running in…
How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more…
What is VMware Photon OS?
Today most vendors are putting a lot of emphasis on “cloud native” applications. Cloud native applications are geared toward containers and containerized applications. This makes possible running microservices inside containers…