Why VMware vMotion doesn’t break your Network: Understanding RARP and MAC Table Updates
We’ve all watched the vSphere progress bar hit 100% and seen the ‘Migration Successful’ toast, marveling at the fact that…
How to Shrink a Linux VMware vSphere Virtual Disk (VMDK) and Its Associated Logical Volume
Allocating additional storage to a virtual machine in VMware vSphere is straightforward, you simply increase the size of the virtual…
How to Shrink a VMware vSphere Virtual Disk for Windows Server
Shrinking a virtual disk in VMware vSphere is considerably more challenging than extending one. While Windows allows you to reduce…
Updating VMware Tools to 13.0.5 manually on Ubuntu 24.04 (Headless Build – without GUI)
Ubuntu’s packaged version of open-vm-tools often lags behind VMware’s latest release. If you want to upgrade manually or build a…
Legacy Linux VMs and the udev NIC Trap: Why VMware Clones and OVF Exports Lose Networking
Whether you clone a legacy Linux VM (e.g. SLES11) in vSphere or export it as an OVF template and redeploy,…
VMware vSphere boot loop when trying to boot from Windows Server 2025 ISO
When trying to install Windows Server 2025 on vSphere, I was running into an known issue which actually requires a…
Installing and running Windows 11 on VMware vSphere
Before we can create a new Windows 11 virtual machine in vSphere, we first need to enable the vSphere Native…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 4: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Day-to-Day Operations
In part 1 we saw how toWe can run the following command to show the currently existing CIFS shares on our SVM. get…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 3: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB – Using NetApp ONTAP as iSCSI Storage for vSphere
In part 1 we saw how to get the ONTAP Simulate appliance and how to deploy it in vSphere. Further we saw the initial…
Step-by-Step Guide Part 2: How to build your own NetApp ONTAP 9 LAB
In part 1 we saw how to get the ONTAP Simulate appliance and how to deploy it in vSphere. Further we saw the initial…
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