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Deploying SQL Server on vSAN for Dummies

Learn how to consolidate your infrastructure and implement a solution that allows you to meet your SQL Server needs so you can make fast and sound business decisions.

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Deploying vCenter 7.0 via the CLI

Recently I decided it was time to add a second vCenter 7.0 Appliance to my main lab environment after the lab containing my SRM and vSphere Replication installation ceased to exist… I thought I would take the CLI route as its been a while, and thought I’d share! To begin, you need to […]

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NSX-T Lightning Hands-on Lab

Register for NSX-T Lightning 60-Day Hands-on Lab Trial.

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Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

I am currently working on a fully new homelab environment running on Dell Poweredge hardware and considered the implementation of a plugin into my VMware vCenter server. Looking into other solutions it shows, in my opinion, that there is no software/hardware which is as tightly cooperating […]

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How long does it take before a host is declared…

I had a question this week around the failure of a host. The question was how long it takes before a host is declared failed. Now let’s be clear, failed means “dead” in this case, not isolated or partitioned. […]

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Announcing VMware Cloud Migration Tools Whitepaper

Announcing VMware Cloud Migration Tools Whitepaper

When it comes to VMware Cloud customers have a choice of different providers to choose from, … The post Announcing VMware Cloud Migration Tools Whitepaper appeared first on VMware Cloud Community.

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Quick Tip – How to retrieve deleted VM history?

Quick Tip – How to retrieve deleted VM history?

Here is another question that can be solved by leveraging vCenter Server Events, which provides a lot of useful information, especially for historical operations and auditing purposes. Simliar to identifying where a VM was cloned from use case, we can also use vCenter events to retrieve the historical events for all VM deletions for a […]

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VMware: How-to Secure our vCenter Server 7…

Greetings friends, for many years, changing or adding an SSL certificate to our VMware vCenter has been a real pain, there are tens of KB,…

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E100-9W – A new fanless Supermicro “NUC” platform

At the end of 2020, I had published a blog article which covers the latest Supermicro kits that are being used and others that can be used for both VMware Homelabs as well as for production workloads. The article was very well received, especially as this is a topic that I frequently get […]

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How Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion works

Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion is new in vSphere 7.0 U1c. See how it works to migrate VMs between two vCenters in different SSO domains.

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ESXi System Storage FAQ

ESXi System Storage FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers about vSphere ESXi core storage, including Auto Deploy and vLCM

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VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-on Lab

Register for VMware Cloud on AWS Hands-on Lab. Deploy a Software Defined Data Center in VMware Cloud on AWS & explore the usage of vCenter to manage the VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Move your vSphere VMs to Google Cloud VMware…

An overview of the process of moving VMs from VMware vSphere to Google Cloud VMware Engine

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ESXi on 11th Gen Intel NUC (Panther Canyon) &…

The highly anticipated 11th Generation Intel NUCs based on the new Tiger Lake processors has just been announced by Intel and I am excited to share my first hand experience with this new NUC platform. There are currently two models in the new 11th Gen lineup: the Intel NUC 11 Performance […]

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Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows – Virtualization Howto

Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows

The more operational tasks that can be automated, the more time vSphere administrators can accomplish other objectives—one of the tasks that can take time out of a busy schedule VMware template patching. VMware vSphere templates are a great way to save time to deploy new machines. However, these nee

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