vSAN Stretched Clusters : Update vSAN Witness Hosts
Maintaining the health and resilience of a vSAN Stretched Cluster requires keeping the vSAN Witness Hosts up to date. In this post, we’ll cover the steps to safely and efficiently…
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Upgrade vSphere Distributed Switch
As you are probably aware of, a Distributed Switch is a virtual switch structure that is centrally managed and distributed through vCenter Server. It offers easier configuration, some interesting features…
VMware Cloud Foundation – Flexible BOM Upgrade: update ESXi, NSX or vCenter Server through an async patch
In this blog we will guide you through the process of implementig a flexible BOM Upgrade, as VMware/Broadcom likes to call it. Actually it is the process of installing one…
VCF 5.2.1 – Upgrade vSAN Disk Format Using vSphere Client or RVC
On a regular basis, the ESXi hypervisors in your environment are updated. When updating to major updates (e.g. ESXi 8.0U3), you have the option to update your vSAN On-Disk Format…
VCF 5.2.1 – Updating to VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3b
In this fourth blog post – we will guide you through the required update steps to update ESXi 8.0 Update 2b (as part of VCF 5.1.1) to 8.0 Update 3b,…
Upgrading your VMware HomeLab: running OPNsense with 2.5Gbps speeds
Imagine the following… You are running a home lab with at least two ESXi hosts in a cluster. vMotions are somewhat slow, especially compared to what you’re used to at…
Create a custom ESXi ISO Image through vSphere LifeCycle Manager
This blog post deals with a feature that has been available in vSphere since vSphere 8.0 U1, however not many people know about this. VMware has documented this as well.…
Secure Boot on ESXi
What is Secure Boot Secure Boot is a security feature to prevent malicious software from loading when your system boots. With Secure Boot in use, a machine refuses to load…
PowerCLI Disable deprecated protocols (TLSv1, TLSv1.1 and SSLv3)
It is a best practice to disable deprecated, unused and unsafe protocols. Examples of these are RFC 8996 for TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 as well as RFC7568 for SSLv3 In this…