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Virtualization Presentation

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

Nutanix .Next 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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Nutanix .Next 2024

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…
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VDI Image Tips & Tricks

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…
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vSphere Homelab: Part 4 – Deploying vCenter

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…
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Transferring Files To A Datastore Using WinSCP

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…
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Allowing Apps From Unverified Developers In Mac OS

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…
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Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly

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…
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vSphere Homelab: Part 3 – Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts

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…
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Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI

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:  …
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London VMUG – July 2023
  • 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…
  • VMUG Advantage
    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…
  • 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…