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vSphere 7 – Lifecycle Management

vSphere 7 – Lifecycle Management

vSphere 7 – Lifecycle Management

We greatly improved lifecycle management in vSphere 7. The new innovations for lifecycle management in vSphere 7 make it easy for customers to have consistent and up-to-date systems. The major lifecycle management improvements in vSphere 7 are vCenter Server Profiles, Update Planner and vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). vCenter Profiles is way to ensure configuration and The post vSphere 7 – Lifecycle Management appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.


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vSphere 7 – Introduction to the vSphere Pod…

vSphere 7 – Introduction to the vSphere Pod Service

vSphere 7 – Introduction to the vSphere Pod…

It’s an exciting time to be a vSphere administrator! vSphere 7 is now available and there’s lots of really cool things incorporated into it. What I’m going to introduce to you in this blog is the vSphere Pod Service. If you have been following any of the Project Pacific announcements and content from VMworld 2019 The post vSphere 7 – Introduction to the vSphere Pod Service appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog.


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Poor Mans AutoDeploy Using Custom Kickstart,…

Poor Mans AutoDeploy Using Custom Kickstart, and Python

Poor Mans AutoDeploy Using Custom Kickstart,…

I recently encountered a situation where I needed to provision hundreds of ESXi hosts. The thing is, there was no vSphere Autodeploy, or HPE Synergy Image Streamer, and no ability to (long story, trust me here) spin them up. No way I’m going to manually provision all of those hosts by hand, so …Read More


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ESXi host Time & date actions menu not working…

ESXi host Time & date actions menu not working in 7.0 host client – Workaround

ESXi host Time & date actions menu not working…

This is something I noticed in the vSphere 7.0 host client. The actions button in the host client for the System > Time & date isn’t working. This means that we have to find an alternate method to enable NTP on the stand-alone host. What we will need to do is the following: Configure NTP startup …Read More


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A trip down memory lane with the vSphere C#…

A trip down memory lane with the vSphere C# Client and ESXi 6.7 & 7.0

A trip down memory lane with the vSphere C#…

Last week I had shared an interesting tweet. Those with a keen eye quickly realized there was more to my tweet than meets the eye 😉 but the majority of folks quickly admitted they were fooled by the nice “April Fools” joke … but was it really a joke? …Well, it yes and no.


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