VMware After Broadcom
Three years after Broadcom bought VMware: what changed for licensing and home labs, why 90% of surveyed customers are looking at alternatives, and where the lab went.
Karl NyenVirtualization
Virtualization techniques covering nested ESXi configurations, virtual firewall architecture, and Cisco Nexus 1000v migrations.
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VMware vCenter 6.7 U1: Windows to VCSA Upgrade and Convergence
Today we will be talking about the VMware vCenter 6.7-U1 (Update 1) upgrade process. I recently had an opportunity to work with a enterprise customer to…
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vSphere 6.7 U1 now released
On October 17, 2018 VMware announced that vSphere 6.7 Update 1 is now available. The new HTML5 client is now ‘Fully Featured’ which means that you can use the…
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VMUG Advantage is 10% off
Today VMware announced that VMUG Advantage is 10% off until December 31st, 2017. This is the best way to get VMware licenses for your home lab environment.
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vSAN all hosts down scenario
The worst case scenario in a VMware vSAN cluster is all hosts down. A situation where no sysadmin wants to find themselves in.
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Migration from Cisco 1000v to VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a series. Click here to see Part 1. I apologise for taking so long to get Part 2 posted. Sometimes I just don't have the time or effort I…
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Virtual Firewall and Networking - Planning Guide
This is a planning guide on how to create a robust, redundant, virtual network for your home-lab environment including a virtual firewall.
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Windows Server 2016 - Technical Preview 5
Microsoft has released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 (build #14300). You can see what's new here. This could probably be one of the last few TP (tech…
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vExpert 2016
I am very honoured to be selected as a vExpert 2016 by VMware. Getting recognition is awesome but knowing that you are sharing content that is for the benefit…
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Migration from Cisco 1000v to VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (Part 1)
While working with a enterprise customer I was tasked with migrating an entire production environment from the Cisco Nexus 1000v to a VMware Virtual…
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Automatically reboot an ESXi host after PSOD
Anyone who has worked in a VMware environment for any length of time should be quite familiar with this purple diagnostic screen, or what we like to call the…
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Installing open-vm-tools on CentOS
Just a quick post here today. This is in regards to installing open-vm-tools on CentOS. There's no need to download and install separate epel-release files…
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VMware HTML5 Client?
I've caught wind of a real HTML5 web client being developed. Its currently very early into development and is released as technical preview fling.
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Enable SNMP on ESXi 5.5
This is a quick guide on how to configure ESXi 5.5 hosts for SNMP monitoring. I use Observium to monitor and collect information about devices on my home…
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VMUG "Green Out" T-Shirt Design Contest
Today VMUG has announced a new contest to design the new look of the VMUG T-Shirt. If you are the artistic type I would suggest that you give this a go.
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End of General Support for vSphere 4.x
This is just a friendly heads up for anyone who may still have VMware vSphere 4.x (ESX, ESXi, and vCenter 4.x) in their environment.
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SSD Emulated Virtual Disks for Nested ESXi
I came across a gotcha scenario when trying to deploy vSAN in my home lab. When adding disks to the nested ESXi server all of the disks are detected as regular…
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