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VMware to XCP-ng Migration Made Easy: Full Setup and Guide

January 20, 2025 sysadmintutorials 0

Are you tired of the rising costs of VMware? You’re not alone. Virtualization is a vital part of modern IT infrastructure, but high licensing fees can stretch budgets to the limit. What if there was […]

Free VMware vCenter 8 Installation Masterclass

August 14, 2023 sysadmintutorials 0

In the rapidly evolving world of IT, mastering virtualization is a key skill that can elevate your abilities and open up a realm of possibilities. If you’re ready to take your virtualization game to the […]

Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM and NAS File Restores

April 18, 2020 sysadmintutorials 0

Previously, in part 1 of Veeam Backup and Replication V10, we created a virtual machine and NAS file-share backup. The virtual machine backup was configured to backup to our ReFS scale-out backup repository. In addition, […]

Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM And NAS File Backups

March 28, 2020 sysadmintutorials 4

Veeam Backup and Replication V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and check out some of the new features this awesome product has to offer. As a […]

How To Join Existing vCenter Servers By Enhanced Linked Mode

January 6, 2020 sysadmintutorials 20

Last month I was asked to join two existing VMware vCenter Servers each with embedded platform services controllers, in enhanced linked mode. Additionally, this will create one SSO domain and enable vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode. […]

Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware

August 21, 2019 sysadmintutorials 2

If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook. Working with one gigantic […]

Automating The Installation Of VMware ESXi With PowerCLI

March 30, 2019 sysadmintutorials 4

I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes to a VM via PowerCLI. The first thing that popped into mind is “Automating a nested ESXi installation”. As […]

VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements

August 28, 2018 sysadmintutorials 0

VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that I want to highlight in this post. Announcements at VMworld 2018 Day 1 VMware Cloud […]

VMware vCloud Director Custom System Roles Not Working

August 20, 2017 sysadmintutorials 0

Within VMware vCloud Director it is possible to create custom system roles to create different levels of access for administrators. Such roles might include Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. If you are running […]

vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 upgrade to VCSA 6.0

February 13, 2017 sysadmintutorials 0

How to upgrade VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 to VCSA 6.0 In this video tutorial, I walk you through how to perform an upgrade of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 to VCSA 6.0. Both VCSA appliances […]