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.
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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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Home Lab Updates: AC Unit, Failed Drive on NAS1
I've been meaning to make a post about all the recent changes to my home lab but I've been quite busy. I've also done some more work on the backend of the…
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Reducing Home Lab Power Usage
I have come to the conclusion that in 2017 I will need to down scale my home lab in order to reduce power & cooling usage.
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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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New ESXi Server Build - VMH02 Replacement
This build was originally meant to be a remote ESXi server for my parents place, but I've ended up liking this new build so much I'm going to have to keep it…
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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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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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