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NSX-T 3.2 Home lab Setup- Part 2 [Setting up the network and vSphere to use NSX-T]:

SouravMitra

Mar 6, 2022
2 min

NSX-T 3.2 Home lab Setup- Part 2 [Setting up the network and vSphere to use NSX-T]:

In this part of the blog series, we will take a look at some of the NSX-t fundamentals and theory of operations, configuring the vCenter...

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NSX-T 3.2 Home lab Setup- Part 1 [Deploying the NSX Unified Appliance OVA]:

SouravMitra

Feb 27, 2022
2 min

NSX-T 3.2 Home lab Setup- Part 1 [Deploying the NSX Unified Appliance OVA]:

In this series of blog posts, we will take a look at deploying the NSX-T 3.2 Manager, preparing the network for setting up NSX-T and...

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VirtualMystery.info is in!! I received the vExpert 2022 award!!

SouravMitra

Feb 20, 2022
3 min

VirtualMystery.info is in!! I received the vExpert 2022 award!!

First of all ...yaayyy!!! It took a while for the excitement of receiving this award to sink in! I started working on virtualization...

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vSAN Witness Appliance 7.0u3c (Build 19193900) password issue after first reboot

SouravMitra

Feb 20, 2022
1 min

vSAN Witness Appliance 7.0u3c (Build 19193900) password issue after first reboot

The vSAN witness appliance is the only case of nested ESXi officially supported for production environments by VMware, and it is...

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PowerCLI function to enable and configure cluster DRS

SouravMitra

Feb 6, 2022
1 min

PowerCLI function to enable and configure cluster DRS

In this blog post, I will be sharing a PowerCLI/PowerShell function that we can use to setup DRS and DRS parameters for automating our...

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SouravMitra

Jan 30, 2022
1 min

Network Upgrade to my Homelab!!

Recently I added a Cisco CBS350 8-port managed switch to my homelab network. So far I only had umanaged network hubs in my homelab. As my...

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Webinar Recap: Turning the Tides: Stopping Zero-Days Before they Become Bad Days

SouravMitra

Jan 23, 2022
2 min

Webinar Recap: Turning the Tides: Stopping Zero-Days Before they Become Bad Days

The VMware team in India had organized this webinar on 11th January 2022, with primary focus on VMware's endpoint protection software...

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New! vCenter Appliance service management with PowerCLI 12.5

SouravMitra

Jan 16, 2022
1 min

New! vCenter Appliance service management with PowerCLI 12.5

Welcome to 2022 readers!! This is my first post for this year. In this post I thought of sharing a new cmdlet recently added to the...

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SouravMitra

Dec 25, 2021
1 min

vSphere Diagnostic Tool: VMware Fling

Since this is my Christmas post, I will try to keep this as short and simple as possible! Recently I happened to test the "vSphere...

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SouravMitra

Dec 19, 2021
3 min

PowerCLI+NAS: Your on-demand Nested ESXi PXE server!!

In this blog post, we will take a look at how to use your NAS as a Pxe server for deploying on demand Nested ESXi. Naturally, this is...

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SouravMitra

Dec 11, 2021
2 min

PowerCLI Function to install VIBs

In today's blog post, we will be looking at a PowerCLI/PowerShell function, that allows us to install VIBs to ESXi Hosts. Typically, we...

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vCenter on-prem metrics anywhere using Grafana on AWS!!

SouravMitra

Dec 4, 2021
7 min

vCenter on-prem metrics anywhere using Grafana on AWS!!

Introduction Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana; together known as the TIG stack, are a set of open source tools that can be used in metric...

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Windows Sever VM as a Homelab to Internet router!!

SouravMitra

Nov 27, 2021
3 min

Windows Sever VM as a Homelab to Internet router!!

After quite a bit of reading on this, I found that using the "Remote Access" feature of windows server is the easiest method for securely...

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SouravMitra

Nov 21, 2021
1 min

ESXi 7.0u3b Update to my home lab!!

It had been a while since I had last updated my homelab vmware environment, 7.0u2a was the last update to be precise. Since the release...

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SouravMitra

Oct 17, 2021
4 min

Export VMware VMs to AWS AMIs/Instances

In this blog post, we will shift gears slightly and take a look at how we can export a VMware VM to an AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2...

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ESXi PXE boot off Synology NAS! [Part 2]

SouravMitra

Oct 10, 2021
2 min

ESXi PXE boot off Synology NAS! [Part 2]

In the Part 1 of this post (Dated 03/10/2021), we looked at how we can configure a Synology NAS as PXE server for installing our ESXi...

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SouravMitra

Oct 3, 2021
2 min

ESXi PXE boot off Synlogy NAS! [Part 1]

Pre-Boot-Execution environment or commonly known as PXE boot allows system administrators to install OS(s) over the network. This comes...

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SouravMitra

Sep 12, 2021
2 min

vCenter 7 Content Library [Part 2]

In continuation to my previous blogpost, in this post we will be looking into how to use the "versioning" feature of vCenter content...

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SouravMitra

Sep 5, 2021
2 min

vCenter 7 Content Library [Part 1]

The vCenter content library has been around for a while, since vsphere 6.0 to be precise. However, in recent times, features have been...

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HA Datastore heartbeat: behind the scenes...

SouravMitra

Aug 22, 2021
3 min

HA Datastore heartbeat: behind the scenes...

VMware HA uses datastore heartbeats to differentiate between host isolation and host failure events. Let's take a closer look at how this...

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