VMware ESXi Free Once again with 8.0U3e! See how to Download it!
Broadcom made major news today with the release of VMware ESXi 8.0U3e as a free hypervisor once again! What is going on? Did we just see Broadcom take away VMware…
Home Lab Automation with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines!
In this video we take a look at home lab automation to see how you can use Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning with Proxmox, VMware, etc….
Home Server Build 2025 for Proxmox with Minisforum BD795i SE
This is another Proxmox Server Build with a variation using the Minisforum BD795i SE motherboard and a few differences here. This is a great board that will allow building your…
Proxmox Swap and Memory Hack for Home Labs!
When it comes to performance, Swap space is generally considered a negative. When you start swapping to disk, performance usually suffers. However, if you running a RAM starved home lab…
Convert VMware to Proxmox // Use Veeam Community Edition for Migration
Many are thinking about migrating from VMware ESXi over to Proxmox and there are starting to be many solutions and ways to migrate with many new tools including Proxmox migration,…
VCF 5.1.0 – Issue replacing Perpetual Licenses with new Subscription ones
In one of my recent VMware engagements, I attempted to replace the perpetual licenses for a VCF 5.1.0 environment with the renewed subscription licenses, however i encountered some interesting issue,…
Terramaster T12-500 Pro NAS Review: Beastly NAS for Home Lab or SMB
I take a detailed look at the Terramaster T12-500 Pro NAS device. This thing is a super beefy NAS device with lots of horsepower and drive bays along with 2…
My Proxmox Server Build 2025! Minisforum BD795M with 32 threads, 96 GB memory, 10 gig
I am building my own server for Proxmox and asking you guys to join in on the journey. We walk through a few things with the build. Why are we…
Deployment of NSX Edge Failed
Scenario: So, I was full of energy completing one of my NSX 6.3.5 deployments. Everything was straight forward deploying NSX Manager, Controllers, preparing hosts, configuring VXLAN, … etc, until I…
Christmas Gift – VSAN Essentials 6.2 Available for Free
Recently I was engaged in multiple VSAN deployments, I have read multiple references like “VMware vSAN Design and Sizing Guide 6.6” and “VMware VSAN Network Design” but I always wanted…
Get Your “VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive” eBook
This is my first time I attended VMWorld Barcelona 2017. What an amazing event !!! During my visit, I grabbed a hard copy of the “VMware vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep…
vExpert 2018 Applications are Now Open
Applications for the 2018 vExpert program are now open. Applications will be accepted until January 19th at midnight PDT. The vExpert 2018 announcement will be on February 16th 2018. The…
Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 1| LAB2PROD
September 18, 2020 Multisite Deployment of NSX-T Data Center Part 1| LAB2PROD NSX-T Active-Active Multisite in a Single Region and Failover to a Secondary Region Part 1. A client required…
Migrating Workloads onto VSAN
Recently, I have been engaged in multiple deployments for customers trying to move out from their traditional datacenters to a VMware-based hyper-converged infrastructures. HCI and especially VMware VSAN brings a…
Building a Multi-NIC VCF 4 Workload Domain using API | LAB2PROD
September 29, 2020 Building a Multi-NIC VCF 4 Workload Domain using API | LAB2PROD Using API to create a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) multi-nic workload domain In this article we…
Offline Manual ESXi Upgrade via CLI
Greetings, With the release version of vSphere 6.5, VMware Update Manager (VUM) now comes embedded within vCenter Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. VUM can then be used to upload patches to its…
Step-by-Step NSX-V Upgrade from 6.3.4 to 6.3.5
Recently, I was engaged in a NSX deployment where we installed NSX for vSphere v6.3.4. However, couple of days later, VMware highlighted that there is a critical bug with this…
Isolated vCenter 6.5 HA nodes “Failed to ssh connect peer node x.y.z.w”
Introduction: Prior to vSphere 6.5, Windows Failover Cluster and Fault Tolerance (after it was improved to support 4 vCPU in vSphere 6.0) were two applicable methods to protect vCenter. These…