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Virtualization Presentation
By Graeme Lewis
/ July 4, 2024
I was recently asked to present an enablement session for our companies new BDM team. As it was the first…
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Nutanix .Next 2024
By Graeme Lewis
/ June 2, 2024
Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Nutanix .Next conference in Barcelona as part of…
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VDI Image Tips & Tricks
By Graeme Lewis
/ April 14, 2024
I’ve recently worked on creating some new master\golden images and thought I’d make some tips & tricks for anyone creating…
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vSphere Homelab: Part 4 – Deploying vCenter
By Graeme Lewis
/ January 31, 2024
If you have followed my other blog posts so far you should have a Nested ESXI installation comprising of 3…
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Transferring Files To A Datastore Using WinSCP
By Graeme Lewis
/ December 11, 2023
I recently had some issues uploading an ISO file to a datastore using the vCenter web console so decided to…
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Allowing Apps From Unverified Developers In Mac OS
By Graeme Lewis
/ October 23, 2023
I recently needed to download an app from a developer on the internet that I had used on other (Windows…
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Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly
By Graeme Lewis
/ October 11, 2023
A customer of ours had an interesting issue the other week. They had created some restricted users to their Horizon…
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Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI
By Graeme Lewis
/ August 16, 2023
We recently needed to update many of our clients VMware tools due to a security exploit that we became aware…
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London VMUG – July 2023
By Graeme Lewis
/ July 26, 2023
2 weeks ago I attended the London VMware User group. Here’s a brief summary of the talks\seminars I attended: …
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- Virtualization Presentationby Graeme LewisI was recently asked to present an enablement session for our companies new BDM team. As it was the first time presenting it…
- Nutanix .Next 2024by Graeme LewisLast 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 & Tricksby Graeme LewisI’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 vCenterby Graeme LewisIf 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 WinSCPby Graeme LewisI 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 OSby Graeme LewisI 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 Correctlyby Graeme LewisA 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 Hostsby Graeme LewisIf 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 PowerCLIby Graeme LewisWe 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 2023by Graeme Lewis2 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 ESXiby Graeme LewisSo 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 2023by Graeme LewisLast 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 Dayby Graeme LewisOn 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 – Hardwareby Graeme LewisProbably 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 vSphereby Graeme LewisSometimes 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 pluginsby Graeme LewisA 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\Montereyby Graeme LewisIf 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 userby Graeme LewisI recently needed some code to create a quick local admin user on a Windows 10 machine. Here’s the Powershell code I used…
- VMUG Advantageby tech-e.adminThere is lots that can be learnt from attending one of VMware’s user group meetings (VMUGs). I’ve attended a few now and learnt…
- BitLocker Recovery Key Locationby Graeme LewisJust 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 startupby Graeme LewisI 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 sequenceby Graeme LewisThe other day one of our users used our MDT\WDS process to rebuild his laptop. He’d partitioned his hard drive so that he…