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The Ultimate Pre-Install ESXi Host Setup Checklist

This guide is a result of setting up countless ESXi hosts and outlines the essential items you need to check before installing ESXi. Also includes common installation error messages for troubleshooting...

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How to Add a Linux iSCSI Target to ESXi

Using Linux as an iSCSI target server is a great way to add shared datastores in your vSphere environment. Jason's post explains how to do this the easy way. Read the post here: How to Add a Linux...

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3 ESXi Backup Methods using the Command-Line

Being in a position to perform an ESXi backup and restore to a known working configuration is always good. Learn how to do this using 3 simple command-line techniques. Read the post here: 3 ESXi Backup...

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How to create vSphere VMs with RDM disks

What are RDM disks and how why do we need them? This guide explains why using RDM disks makes sense for creating vSphere VMs in certain situations as well as a simple walkthrough on how to use them in...

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Starting out with VMware? 6 Things I Would Have Wanted To Know

This post is going to explain and cover a few things I WISH I had known when I started. Some cold hard truths. Lessons I have learned over the years! The fact is, sometimes you learn by fire. You set a...

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How to Configure ESXi Unattended Installations: Part 1

Automating your ESXi builds is a great way of gaining efficiency and standardization. In part 1 of 2 we create the kickstart file and test it on an ESXi deployment Read the post here: How to Configure...

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How to Configure ESXi Unattended Installations: Part 2

In part 2 of our guide to scripted ESXi deployments, we automate the ESXi install by configuring our ISO to automatically look for the kickstart script Read the post here: How to Configure ESXi...

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Bare Metal Deployment of ESXi on HP Proliant Hardware: Part 2

Part 2 of our ESXi guide on HP Proliant and we're getting down to business - building our RAID configuration ISOs and our ESXi install ISO. Let's do this! Read the post here: Bare Metal Deployment of...

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The Ultimate Pre-Install ESXi Host Setup Checklist

This guide is a result of setting up countless ESXi hosts and outlines the essential items you need to check before installing ESXi. Also includes common installation error messages for troubleshooting...

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Bare Metal Deployment of ESXi on HP Proliant Hardware: Part 3

Part 3 of our ESXi on HP Proliant series is where all the magic happens. We will customize the deployment script [included here] and finally give it a run. Read the post here: Bare Metal Deployment of...

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How to Upgrade VCSA to vCenter 6.7: A Visual Guide

vSphere 6.7 is out and it's time to upgrade to vCenter Appliance 6.7. Here's how plus some things not mentioned in the installation wizard Read the post here: How to Upgrade VCSA to vCenter 6.7: A...

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These vSphere Configurations Will Slow Down Your VMs

Most VMware admins add the requested CPU and Memory when setting up VMs and go along their merry way. But the better ones know there is more to it than that Read the post here: These vSphere...

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How to Build a VMware vSphere 6 Home Lab: Host Options

For part 2 of our series, we will assess host options for a VMware home lab. Here are 3 solid options, their pros and cons and what you'll need to set up! Read the post here: How to Build a VMware...

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Top 5 VMware Articles from 2018 You Need to Have Read

A lot has happened to VMware in 2018. A lot of exciting news, developments, updates, bugs, errors, and plans. Here are our top 5 best VMware reads of the year Read the post here: Top 5 VMware Articles...

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How to Create Your Own PowerShell Dashboard for ESXi

The PowerShell Universal Dashboard is one of the coolest PowerShell modules available right now. It allows IT Pro’s to stand up beautiful Web UI dashboards with just a few lines of PowerShell. It’s...

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How to Change NIC Team Load Balancing Using the ESXi Console

NIC teaming in ESXi allows the hypervisor to share traffic among the physical and virtual networks. It also enables passive failover in the event of a hardware or network issue. It is definitely a good...

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VMware vSphere 7 Review – Evolution or Revolution?

VMware vSphere 7 is finally upon us! But does it manage to hit expectations or is it just a marginal step from previous versions? In this blog post, we run down the key features of vSphere 7 and give...

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What’s New in Horizon 7.11?

Since the release of Horizon 7, VMware has been very reactive in the release cycle of its VDI solution by regularly adding new features and fixing issues. The latest version 7.11 also brings a fair...

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The Complete Guide to ESXCLI Installation and VIB

A great number of responsibilities belong to vSphere administrators in a datacenter team as the hosts are one of the foundation stones for all the other systems. They need to ensure that they are...

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Getting Started with Puppet Bolt on VMware

Bolt is an open-source orchestration tool created by Puppet. It allows VMware administrators to orchestrate changes among their VMware infrastructure. This product fills a gap in the standard Puppet...

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