Keeping your ESXi hosts and virtual machines updated and in sync is essential for a healthy and secure VMware virtual environment. Traditionally, this task has been handled by the vSphere Update Manager (VUM), a powerful tool that has served us well. However, VMware has introduced an evolved version management system – the vSphere Lifecycle Manager …

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Setting up a VMware ESXi server is a process that requires a good understanding of the technologies and best practices. I have put together a list of installation and setup steps that I run through when setting up new ESXi servers in production and in the home lab. When done correctly, the installation and setup …

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If you’re managing a VMware vSphere environment, there might come a time when you need to change the IP address of your vCenter Server. You may want to move your vSphere management to a dedicated management network (certainly recommended from a security perspective). This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to change vCenter IP …

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Not long now after the release of VMware vSphere 8 and great features like the VMware Cloud console, VMware has announced VMware vSphere 8 Update 1 with great new features that span security, automation, storage, and many others. In this overview, let’s look at VMware vSphere 8 Update 1 announced new features. Table of contentsWhat …

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There are many different constructs as part of the VMware vSphere environment with vCenter Server and ESXi. VMware vSphere provides many excellent capabilities and tools as part of the vSphere cluster resources for critical workloads. Two components in vSphere provide many capabilities to your virtualized environment running virtual machines – resource pools and cluster resources. …

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If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on your vSAN datastore and provide the test results once the test are finished using the …

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As you may already be aware, VMware is providing quarterly VMware Multi-Cloud briefings that help to bring organizations up to speed with the latest technologies and strategies for taking advantage of all the cloud has to offer. Multi-cloud is the strategy that most companies have adopted, as over 80% of companies are now using at …

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VMware Workstation is arguably one of the premier desktop virtualization platforms today and provides an excellent platform for development, POCs, and even home labs. I wrote about the latest Workstation beta release with some exciting new features not long ago. Those new features and capabilities have now materialized in the VMware Workstation 17 Pro release. …

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In case you didn’t know, VMware has its own logging solution as part of the vRealize Suite of solutions, now VMware Aria called vRealize Log Insight. With vRealize Log Insight, you can aggregate all your logs from vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and even Windows and Linux hosts by log forwarding. The vRealize Log Insight solution is …

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The new VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture is one of the most revolutionary advancements in vSAN technology since vSAN 6.2 came along. The new vSAN Express Storage architecture ESA provides a radically new architecture allowing businesses to realize the potential of modern hardware configurations fully. Let’s look at how you configure vSAN 8 Express …

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