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Introduction VMware Cloud on AWS is a hybrid cloud solution that seamlessly integrates VMware's enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It enables businesses to extend their on-premises VMware environments to the cloud, offering scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency. This guide walks you through deploying VMware Cloud on...

With all the uncertainty across the industry with the tectonic shakeup with VMware by Broadcom, many organizations may be looking at alternative solutions. Vates XCP-ng (free and open source Xenserver for virtualization) is certainly on the list of solutions that businesses can consider as a hypervisor moving forward if they...

I have been working the last few days on my Windows Server 2025 packer build for VMware vSphere now that Windows Server 2025 has now been released as GA. It did require quite a few tweaks from the previous way I built Windows Server 2022. So, hopefully this will give...

Learn about Proxmox replication and how it helps with data integrity and makes sure of high availability. Learn to config step-by-step.    05 the proxmox replication job is successfully created and enabled Proxmox offers excellent built-in disaster recovery tools that require no additional add-ons or licensing. One notable feature is...

Introduction Are you looking to install ESXi on your VMware Workstation? ESXi, a hypervisor used in virtualization, allows you to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. This can be a great solution for testing and learning purposes, as well as for small-scale production environments. VMware ESXi is...

VMware is the leader in virtualization in the enterprise. It has released VMware vSAN Max as the latest addition to their vSAN product lineup. vSAN Max is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution providing maximum performance, scalability, and flexibility for modern data centers. It has advanced features and capabilities with the...

In our daily work, we often encounter situations where migrating Hyper-V VMs to different storage is necessary, ideally without downtime. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced storage live migration, a feature that allows us to move VM storage while the VM remains running. For versions prior to Windows Server...

There are a lot of times when I am working in the home lab and removing things and adding things, changing hardware, etc and you get things in a funky state when it comes to datastores and other configuration. I wanted to walk through with you guys removing an inaccessible...

With VMware Workstation Pro now available for free for personal use, it provides an excellent opportunity to use the software as a home lab platform and explore various hypervisors. Installing Proxmox in VMware Workstation Pro offers newcomers a hands-on way to familiarize themselves with the hypervisor, its features, and its...

VMware certainly made news yesterday with the announcement that VMware Workstation Pro is now free for all users even businesses and organizations. If you remember, in May of this year, they made the announcement that VMware Workstation Pro would be free for personal use. Let’s talk about this announcement in more detail. What’s...