vsphere
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VMware
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 three things that you can do in VMware ESXi to…
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VMware
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 changing the hostname of an ESXi host in the environment…
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VMware
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 quite some time and decided to pull the trigger. The…
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vSphere 6.7
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. There are already a few posts when ones who have…
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VMware
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. The DB in question was a DB that was around…
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Nutanix
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 cool things with the lab environment is playing around with…
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VMware
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 come is the introduction of vSphere Platinum and vSphere 6.7…
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VMware
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.ย After all if the production workloads running in the virtualized environment are not running with adequate performance, problems…
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vSphere 6.5
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 difficult for it to be compromised in an attack. There…
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VMware
What is VMware Photon OS?
Today most vendors are putting a lot of emphasis on โcloud nativeโ applications.ย Cloud native applications are geared toward containers and containerized applications.ย This makes possible running microservices inside containers with the ability to function in cloud computing environments and…