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VMware Releasing VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3h and VMware vCenter 8.0 Update 3h

VMware Releasing VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3h and VMware vCenter 8.0 Update 3h

Latest patches from VMware/Broadcom has been released for your vSphere 8 infrastructure. Mainly bug fixes, but there are also some new features that are definitely worth to update (you have to patch to fix bug fixes anyways). One of them…

What is a Virtual Standard Switch (vSS) in ESXi

What is a Virtual Standard Switch (vSS) in ESXi

Introduction Networking is one of the most critical components of any virtualized environment. In VMware ESXi, virtual machines (VMs) rely on virtual switches to communicate with each other and the external network. One of the most fundamental networking constructs in…

VMware vSphere Replication 9.0.2.3

VMware vSphere Replication 9.0.2.3

VMware vSphere Replication is a software solution designed for backup and recovery of data in virtualized infrastructures using VMware vSphere. The tool allows users to replicate virtual machines (VMs) from one site to another online, with low latency, automatically, and without…

Configure NFS Datastore on VMware ESXi with a Distributed Switch

Configure NFS Datastore on VMware ESXi with a Distributed Switch

In VMware environments, using NFS storage is one of the simplest ways to provide shared storage for ESXi hosts. When combined with a VMware Distributed Switch (VDS), it offers better network management, traffic isolation, and scalability across multiple ESXi hosts.…

How to Configure VMkernel Port for VMware vMotion

How to Configure VMkernel Port for VMware vMotion

Virtualization has become the core of modern datacenters, and VMware vSphere remains the industry leader for enterprise-grade virtualization management. One of the most powerful and widely used features in the VMware ecosystem is vMotion—a technology that allows you to migrate…

VMware vCenter 9 Download

VMware vCenter 9 Download

VMware vCenter 9 (part of vSphere 9.0/VCF 9.0) is a significant update modernizing the platform with features like NVMe memory tiering, enhanced security (Trusted Domains), better container/VM management, unified operations (VCF Operations), and a new licensing model where vCenter licensing shifts…

VMware vCenter Converter 9.0.0

VMware vCenter Converter 9.0.0

VMware vCenter Converter 9 is a powerful and reliable tool that enables seamless Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) conversions. This tool allows network administrators and IT professionals to migrate existing physical infrastructure to virtual environments and increase the productivity and…

Routing VLAN tags to virtual private cloud (VPC) subnets in a virtualization environment

Routing VLAN tags to virtual private cloud (VPC) subnets in a virtualization environment

Mapping VLAN Tags to Virtual Private Cloud Subnets In a typical virtualization environment, a virtual machine (VM) sends untagged traffic out of its virtual network interface card (vNIC). By default, the virtual switch drops any traffic that has an 802.1Q…

VMware Avi Load Balancer

VMware Avi Load Balancer

The VMware Avi Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks / NSX Advanced Load Balancer) is a next-generation software-defined load balancing and application delivery platform designed for modern multi-cloud environments. It provides advanced L4–L7 load balancing, intelligent traffic management, web application firewall…