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VMware vSAN 7 Update 3 New Features
With the release of VMware vSphere 7 Update 3 , this also means there is a new version of vSAN as well. VMware vSAN has been trailblazing in the…
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vSphere 7 Update 3 Released with new features
As VMware has done a few times right before VMworld, they have released a new version of VMware vSphere to the masses – vSphere 7 Update 3. It is the…
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vCenter Security Bug Workaround with vCenter Firewall Configuration
Recently we had one of the most significant security advisories that I can remember with vCenter Server. Compromising VMware vCenter Server is th…
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SD Card and USB boot no longer supported in ESXi easy migration to SSD
Recently there have been a few blogs and KB that have caught my attention. VMware has now deprecated SD Card and USB device support as a standalone b…
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Move a vSphere vSAN ESXi VM to VMware Workstation
So, in the home lab environment, I had a use case come up for moving one of my DevOps VMs from my VMware vSphere vSAN environment to VMware Workstat…
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Install Applications in vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes using Helm
If you followed along in my VMware vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Home lab post, hopefully, this helped anyone desiring to stand up vSphere with Tanzu in…
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Patch vCenter Server Critical Security Bug CVE-2021-22005 Download
Security concerns related to our VMware vSphere environments keep us up at night, and with good reason. Critical security bugs that affect your hyp…
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VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Home Lab
In my opinion, there is no better way to learn any technology than getting your “hands dirty” and playing around with it – installing, configuring, a…
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Shut down vSphere with Tanzu
As with all VMware environments with various solutions layered on top of the core vSphere infrastructure, there is an order of operations. This order…
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IPMI Monitoring Supermicro VMware Servers with PRTG
If you are like me, you may be a bit of a monitoring geek when it comes to your home lab and production environments. Proper monitoring can help t…
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ESXi Install Disk not detecting HDD
Have you been in a situation where you are installing a brand new VMware ESXi host, and when you get to the point of the installer scanning for the…
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VMware Horizon Client Error Couldn’t Connect to Server
Many organizations are making use of VMware Horizon as the solution to enable a successful, effective, and efficient remote work environment. VMwar…
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VMware Home Lab Network Design
Many of us run VMware home labs and these no doubt have many different architectures and hardware configurations across the entire landscape, and t…
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vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation: Step-by-Step
Home labs comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the first types of labs that many are able to invest in is running VMware Workstation on top of a …
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VLAN Tagging Software for Windows 10 without Proset drivers
If you are like me, you may interact with multiple network segments and VLANS configured for different purposes. However, what if you have a workst…
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[Virtual server name] could not initialize. An attempt to read or update virtual machine configuration failed
An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machines after a restore operation. Symptoms Symptom 1: You may receive …
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Fix vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date
For those of you running VMware vSAN environments, have you seen a pesky error on your vSAN cluster referencing a vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm v…
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Avi Load Balancer VMware Standalone Install
The “software-defined” revolution has transformed just about every area of the data center in the past few years. One of the latecomers to the game…
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Kubernetes Home Lab Setup Step-by-Step
Have you wanted to get a Kubernetes Home lab setup to start learning Kubernetes? It can be an intimidating subject if you simply start Googling aro…
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Best Practices to backup VMware vSphere Virtual Machines
While containers and containerized workloads are certainly gaining momentum with organizations redesigning business-critical applications for the f…
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