10 VMware Interview Questions (and answers)
For many, applying for a new job is a stressful experience. Before the interview, we can find ourselves worrying about if we know enough for the technical review stage. The truth…
VMware
Guides, fixes and news from my VMware lab. Covers vSphere, VCF, vSAN, NSX and Aria, plus Broadcom licensing changes and my yearly end-of-life rundowns.
2019
How to quickly optimize your VDI environment
Many VDI deployments suffer from slow performance for one reason or another. Fortunately, VMware has a free tool that can optimise your VDI images for better performance: VMware…
How to provide feedback directly to VMware 1-on-1
Being able to provide feedback to hardware and software vendors is challenging. Most companies will allow you to send in your suggestions or product feedback via an online form or…
5 VMware tools that you didn’t know were free
VMware Skyline # Skyline is free for every account that has a production support agreement (or premier service contract) This is a proactive support tool managed by VMware. It…
5 things to do after installing VMware ESXi
VMware's ESXi Hypervisor (or vSphere Hypervisor) is commonly deployed in production and home-labs. Once installed, it's easy to start building Virtual Machines and installing your…
Using vRealize Operations to identify Zombie VMs
This month the vExpert Cloud Management team challenged its members to utilise VMware Cloud Management tools to locate Zombie VMs. If we were able to do this, we were awarded a…
Setting up an NTP Server on PhotonOS
I previously wrote about how you can reduce your Windows Server footprint by replacing your Windows DNS server with one running on PhotonOS. This is mostly suitable for a lab…
Setting up a DNS Server with PhotonOS
With VMware removing the need for Windows Server for most of their solutions including vCenter, SRM, VROPS etc, I found that I only have 1 Windows Server remaining. With its main…
Migrating AWS EC2 Instances to VMware (Free software)
Earlier this week I posted about how to Migrate VMware Virtual Machines into AWS EC2 instances. I had a lot of interest from this post (1000's hits in the first 24 hours) and…
Migrating VMware VMs to AWS – A to Z (Zero Cost)
There comes a time when you might need to leverage the benefits a public cloud such as AWS has, to host some applications. In my day to day experience, this generally applies to…
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