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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…
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….
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
