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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • December 22, 2022

Azure Arc-enabled VMware vSphere

Azure Arc enables users to extend the functionality of Azure Resource Manager to on-premises environments (including VMware vSphere) or other clouds. It brings better visibility, control, and management. This is a great tool as managing hybrid or multi-cloud is daunting, as well as it can cause security compromises.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • May 26, 2022

Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion with different SSO domains now enhanced starting vSphere 7.0 U3c

Cross vCenter Server vMotion has been greatly enhanced in vSphere 7.0 Updates U3c. For one, it’s now been integrated into the vSphere web client, which makes it much easier to access and operate. But, among its new updates, one stands out the most: the ability to execute a clone bulk operation between vCenter servers with different SSO domains.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • November 16, 2021

New vSphere Diagnostic Tool utility

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a free utility which is, essentially, a script built for checking vCenter Server. It’s applicable to vSphere 6.5 and higher and used by engineers to isolate a particular issue in your vSphere environment. It’s an early tool, but it already has an extensive checklist it searches your vCenter Server for and can prove quite handy.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • February 9, 2021

Managing VMware vCenter & ESXi License Keys with PowerCLI

More transparency, fewer hardware restrictions, freedom of choice, clarity of control, and immutability — that’s where backups are headed. Microsoft has been taking too long to adapt its ReFS to those consumer demands. Veeam and Linux, on the other hand, leverage those trends and offer immutability with reasonable freedom of object and cloud storage choice.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • August 26, 2020

VMware Horizon 8 New Major release – What’s New?

Since the end of the global lockdown is nowhere in sight, you have to be able to work effectively and securely from anywhere. To better accommodate that, VMware recently rolled out the new updates for its flagship VDI suite, Horizon 8. There’s a lot to talk about: HTML Access by Default, New Deployment Options, REST API, Digital Watermark, and more!
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • June 9, 2020

How to Upgrade ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 without vCenter

Buying every separate feature or tool from VMware vSphere can prove too expensive for small deployments. Not having vCenter will mean you can’t run the host, which has vCenter Server Appliance, in maintenance mode. Nonetheless, you’ll still need to update your ESXi to the latest version for the environment to work properly.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • April 30, 2020

VMware vSphere 7: What is off the table?

Generally, people like new things, especially when it comes to technology. But with the new vSphere 7 coming in, little to no focus is offered to what’s been discarded. For example, there is no more Flash-based vSphere Web Client, Platform Services Controller has been dropped, vCenter for Windows — canceled, and so on.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • October 31, 2019

vSphere 6.7: hot migrate VMs to different clusters with vMotion

Not every company owns a sophisticated infrastructure packed with shared storage, virtual SANs, NVMe, etc. Migrating systems, especially VMs, in an average IT environment could create workload disruptions because you’d have to stall other processes. Finally, however, those days are over: vMotion can migrate your VMs while keeping all systems active and operational.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • August 21, 2019

How to manually patch VMware vCenter server Appliance (VCSA) in a Highly Secure or Offline Environments

Even the least experienced users know a few things vital for an undisrupted working process if they are dealing with VMware vSphere infrastructure, one of those things being patching. Back in the good old days, risks of cyber threats were something that happens to people in the movies, but today you won’t go very far without security patches. Keep your environment up to date with patching VMware vCenter Server Appliance!
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