VCF Home Lab Part 1: Hardware & Planning
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I wanted to go about building a VMware Cloud Foundation home lab for quite a while.…
Author: Graeme Lewis
London VMware User Group – January 2026
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the first London VMUG of the year hosted at OVHCloud’s office. Here’s my breakdown of…
Updated Nutanix Learning
Recently I have been provided with some great links to lots of Nutanix training that you can do, you just need a free…
Nutanix .NEXT on Tour London 2025
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being able to attend the Nutanix .NEXT on tour in London, which was…
New Method For Updating vSphere Under Broadcom
Recently VMware by Broadcom made a change to the way that vSphere updates are downloaded for their products. You may find that when…
VMUG UK UserCon – 2025
I was also lucky enough to attend the VMUG UK UserCon which was held in the Hilton London Metropole. This was held the…
VMware Explore On Tour – London 2025
Last week I attended the VMware by Broadcom Explore on Tour in London, which was hosted at the Hilton London Metropole. Unfortunately I…
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 GA
On 17th June 2025 VMware by Broadcom announce the launch and general availability of VCF 9. See here This new version brings some…
Using Nutanix University
Like many vendors, Nutanix has an online learning platform that can be used to learn all about the their products. That platform is…
Nutanix .NEXT 2025
I was once again luckily enough to be invited to Nutanix’s .NEXT conference, this time in Washington DC, USA. Here’s what I got…
London VMware User Group – April 2025
Last week I was able to attend the London VMware User Group at the iconic BBC Television Centre. Here’s a brief summary of…
Deploying Nutanix AHV Community Edition in vSphere\ESXi
If you’re searching for a new Hypervisor for use and want to take a look at Nutanix’s Acropolis Hypervisor then they have a…
VMUG UserCon 2024
Last week I got the chance to attend my first ever VMUG UserCon. This was held at the national motorcycle museum in Solihull.…
Patching 101: vCenter
When I first started doing patching of vCenter servers, I found it quite difficult to understand at first. Here’s my quick guide to…
Patching 101: ESXI Hosts
When I first started doing patching of ESXI servers, I found it quite difficult to understand at first. Here’s my quick guide to…
Allowing Cut, Copy & Paste in VMs
It can be a pain when you need to copy and paste text to a VM from your local machine. I assume that…
Virtualization Presentation
I was recently asked to present an enablement session for our companies new BDM team. As it was the first time presenting it…
Nutanix .Next 2024
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Nutanix .Next conference in Barcelona as part of the vExpert program.…
VDI Image Tips & Tricks
I’ve recently worked on creating some new master\golden images and thought I’d make some tips & tricks for anyone creating a new image:…
vSphere Homelab: Part 4 – Deploying vCenter
If you have followed my other blog posts so far you should have a Nested ESXI installation comprising of 3 x ESXi hosts.…
Transferring Files To A Datastore Using WinSCP
I recently had some issues uploading an ISO file to a datastore using the vCenter web console so decided to use WinSCP to…
Allowing Apps From Unverified Developers In Mac OS
I recently needed to download an app from a developer on the internet that I had used on other (Windows machines). However on…
Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly
A customer of ours had an interesting issue the other week. They had created some restricted users to their Horizon environment based of…
vSphere Homelab: Part 3 – Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts
If you’ve followed my other homelab posts (Part 1 & Part 2) you should have a host that has VMware ESXi installed on…
Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI
We recently needed to update many of our clients VMware tools due to a security exploit that we became aware of. Many of…
London VMUG – July 2023
2 weeks ago I attended the London VMware User group. Here’s a brief summary of the talks\seminars I attended: Integrated ML Ops…
vSphere Homelab: Part 2 – Installing & Configuring ESXi
So now we have our hardware it’s time to start installing ESXi onto our host and adding the 3 ESXi nested hosts (software…
London VMUG – April 2023
Last week I attended the London VMware user group (VMUG). If you’ve never been to a VMUG then its a get together of…
TD Synnex & VMware Networking and Security Day
On Tuesday this week, I was lucky enough to be able to attend TD Synnex’s & VMware’s networking and security day at TD…
vSphere HomeLab: Part 1 – Hardware
Probably the best way to learn any I.T. related technology is to run it on a homelab. Most people I know who have…
Determining Hard Disks In vSphere
Sometimes it can be hard to determine which drive in Windows correlates to which hard disk in the VM’s settings, especially if you…
Removing old vCenter plugins
A customer recently asked for a few old plugins be removed from vCenter. In order to do this we need to enter the vCenter…
Exporting VMs from VMware Fusion on macOS Big Sur\Monterey
If you wanted to export a virtual machine from VMware Fusion 12 to move the virtual machine to another machine\host, you’d think that…
Powershell: Create a new local admin user
I recently needed some code to create a quick local admin user on a Windows 10 machine. Here’s the Powershell code I used…
BitLocker Recovery Key Location
Just recently I needed to boot a users laptop into Safe Mode so I could uninstall some drivers. However when it restarted it…
vCenter boots into emergency mode on startup
I started up my virtual lab today and got the following error on my vCenter server: “Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”Entering emergency mode. Exit the…
Preventing overwriting of extra partitions in an MDT task sequence
The other day one of our users used our MDT\WDS process to rebuild his laptop. He’d partitioned his hard drive so that he…