Archive for the ‘VMware vSphere 7’ Category
VMware vSphere & vSAN – how to store data on the physical disks of vSAN
Montag, Februar 13th, 2023VMware vSphere & vSAN – best practices you need to know about vSAN networking to increase performance consistency and availability
Samstag, Februar 11th, 2023VMware vSAN – how does a vSAN 2-node topology work
Samstag, Februar 4th, 2023VMware vSAN – how to configure a vSAN Stretched Cluster
Samstag, Februar 4th, 2023VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 3.5 – 8.0) – Hypervisor Size Comparison
Freitag, Januar 13th, 2023
Fujitsu Futro S740 (refurbished) – VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) for running a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) as a nested virtualization installation
Freitag, Januar 6th, 2023
Checkmk Raw Edition 2.1.0p18 – Secure VMware Monitoring
Mittwoch, Dezember 28th, 2022VMware PowerCLI 13.0.0 – is a command line and scripting tool built on PowerShell
Dienstag, Dezember 13th, 2022
VMware PowerCLI – is a command line and scripting tool built on PowerShell and provides more than 7000 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, VMware NSX-T VMware Cloud Services VMware Cloud on AWS VMware HCX VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware Horizon environments
Changes to building custom ESXi images in vSphere 7 – an eample how to add the USB NIC Fling to ESXi 7.0 Base Image
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> (Get-Module VMware.PowerCLI -ListAvailable).RequiredModules | Uninstall-Module -Force
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-Module VMware.PowerCLI -ListAvailable | Uninstall-Module -Force
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd C:\esxi
PS C:\esxi>
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard“ -ExportToBundle -filepath ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard.zip
PS C:\esxi> Remove-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard.zip
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ESXi700-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-39035884-component-16770668.zip
PS C:\esxi> New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard“ -name „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC“ -Vendor „virten.net“
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC“ -SoftwarePackage „vmkusb-nic-fling“
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC“ -ExportToIso -filepath ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC.iso
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC“ -ExportToBundle -filepath ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-USBNIC.zip
VMware OEM Licensing – a server with VMware ESXi embedded in the hardware and need to redeem the serial number for your subscription or to activate additional VMware Infrastructure products
Donnerstag, September 29th, 2022Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 7.x versus VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – ultimate comparison 2022
Mittwoch, September 14th, 2022
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – performance regression in linux kernel 5.19
Dienstag, September 13th, 2022Performance regression in linux kernel 5.19 – after performing the bisect between kernel 5.18 and 5.19 we identified the root cause to be the enablement of IBRS mitigation for spectre_v2 vulnerability by commit 6ad0ad2bf8a6 („x86/bugs: Report Intel retbleed vulnerability“) to confirm this we have disabled the above security mitigation through kernel boot parameter(spectre_v2=off) in 5.19 and re-ran our tests and confirmed that the performance was on-par with 5.18 release
Synology DSM 7.1 – how to install on VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x)
Samstag, Juni 25th, 2022Ransomware ‚Black Basta‘ – is the latest ransomware gang to add support for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on enterprise Linux servers
Mittwoch, Juni 8th, 2022VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – Auto Deploy add Driver to ESXi ISO Custom Image
Sonntag, Mai 29th, 2022