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You can now deploy Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, which enables customers to run a VMware vSphere software-defined data center (SDDC) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) bare metal instances, on GPU shape BM.GPU.GU1.4. Powered by four NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core […]
After the installation process, you will discover the following VIBs (VMware Installation Bundles) installed on the ESXi host: nsx-aggservice: This service operates on management plane nodes and retrieves the runtime state of NSX-T components. […]
Learn about the security aspect of cloud-connected environments. With security being top of mind, connecting on-prem environments to the cloud with vSphere+ has never been easier, while having peace of mind.
In Ansible, you can run multiple tasks by grouping them under a single play. A play is a collection of tasks that target a specific set of hosts and are executed in order. In this article I would like to share couple of my Ansible Playbooks for ESXi Maintenance and Reboot. All Ansible Playbooks [..]
Ansible Inventory is a hosts file which contains every server that is managed by Ansible. Inventory file is located in /etc/ansible/hosts on your Ansible VM. Once you add server in hosts file, you need also to establish an SSH connection using SSH key. In this article I will show you how to […]
Overview vSphere Replication is included with vCenter Server Standard. It’s a useful virtual machine replication tool to replicate virtual machines from within a source vCenter Server to a remote vCenter Server for DR purposes. It can also be used as a migration tool. […]
Azure VMware Solution is a fully managed service in Azure that customers can use to extend their on-premises VMware workloads more seamlessly to the cloud, while maintaining their existing skills and operational processes. Learn more.
Latest VMware vCenter converter standalone v 6.4 software made its apparition, after a brief period of beta. The latest version is fully compatible with vSphere 8.x and also with latest guest OS such as Windows Server 2022. Since a long time VMware has put a lot of effort on updating this soft-[…]
ESXi is a powerful and versatile hypervisor that is widely used for virtualization in data centers. However, if you forget your root password, it can be a serious problem. Fortunately, there are several methods to reset the ESXi root password. In this article, I will walk you through step-by-[…]
HashiCorp Packer.exe is an open source tool for building identical Virtual machine golden images for various platforms from a single source configuration. This is last and final (3rd) part of How to use HashiCorp Packer to automate and create a Windows Server Virtual Machine template on VMware […]
