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…

Last week I was able to attend the London VMware User Group at the iconic BBC Television Centre. Here’s a brief summary of…

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…

Last week I got the chance to attend my first ever VMUG UserCon. This was held at the national motorcycle museum in Solihull.…

When I first started doing patching of vCenter servers, I found it quite difficult to understand at first. Here’s my quick guide to…

When I first started doing patching of ESXI servers, I found it quite difficult to understand at first. Here’s my quick guide to…

It can be a pain when you need to copy and paste text to a VM from your local machine. I assume that…

I was recently asked to present an enablement session for our companies new BDM team. As it was the first time presenting it…

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the Nutanix .Next conference in Barcelona as part of the vExpert program.…

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:…

If you have followed my other blog posts so far you should have a Nested ESXI installation comprising of 3 x ESXi hosts.…

I recently had some issues uploading an ISO file to a datastore using the vCenter web console so decided to use WinSCP to…

I recently needed to download an app from a developer on the internet that I had used on other (Windows machines). However on…

A customer of ours had an interesting issue the other week. They had created some restricted users to their Horizon environment based of…

If you’ve followed my other homelab posts (Part 1 & Part 2) you should have a host that has VMware ESXi installed on…

We recently needed to update many of our clients VMware tools due to a security exploit that we became aware of. Many of…

2 weeks ago I attended the London VMware User group. Here’s a brief summary of the talks\seminars I attended:   Integrated ML Ops…

So now we have our hardware it’s time to start installing ESXi onto our host and adding the 3 ESXi nested hosts (software…

Last week I attended the London VMware user group (VMUG). If you’ve never been to a VMUG then its a get together of…

On Tuesday this week, I was lucky enough to be able to attend TD Synnex’s & VMware’s networking and security day at TD…

Probably the best way to learn any I.T. related technology is to run it on a homelab. Most people I know who have…

Sometimes it can be hard to determine which drive in Windows correlates to which hard disk in the VM’s settings, especially if you…

A customer recently asked for a few old plugins be removed from vCenter. In order to do this we need to enter the vCenter…

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…

I recently needed some code to create a quick local admin user on a Windows 10 machine. Here’s the Powershell code I used…

There is lots that can be learnt from attending one of VMware’s user group meetings (VMUGs). I’ve attended a few now and learnt…

Just recently I needed to boot a users laptop into Safe Mode so I could uninstall some drivers. However when it restarted it…

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…

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…