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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 GA

VMware Cloud Foundation 9 GA

Posted on June 19, 2025June 19, 2025 by Graeme Lewis

On 17th June 2025 VMware by Broadcom announce the launch and general availability of VCF 9. See here This new version brings some…

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London VMware User Group - April 2025

London VMware User Group – April 2025

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Deploying Nutanix AHV Community Edition in vSphere\ESXi

Deploying Nutanix AHV Community Edition in vSphere\ESXi

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Graeme Lewis

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…

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VMUG UserCon 2024

VMUG UserCon 2024

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Patching 101: vCenter

Patching 101: vCenter

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Patching 101: ESXI Hosts

Patching 101: ESXI Hosts

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Allowing Cut, Copy & Paste in VMs

Allowing Cut, Copy & Paste in VMs

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Virtualization Presentation

Virtualization Presentation

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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VDI Image Tips & Tricks

VDI Image Tips & Tricks

Posted on April 14, 2024May 1, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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:…

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vSphere Homelab: Part 4 - Deploying vCenter

vSphere Homelab: Part 4 – Deploying vCenter

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Transferring Files To A Datastore Using WinSCP

Transferring Files To A Datastore Using WinSCP

Posted on December 11, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly

Horizon App Volume Writables Profile Not Saving Correctly

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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vSphere Homelab: Part 3 - Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts

vSphere Homelab: Part 3 – Deploying Nested ESXi Hosts

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI

Upgrading VMware Tools Via PowerCLI

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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London VMUG - July 2023

London VMUG – July 2023

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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vSphere Homelab: Part 2 - Installing & Configuring ESXi

vSphere Homelab: Part 2 – Installing & Configuring ESXi

Posted on June 28, 2023September 1, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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London VMUG - April 2023

London VMUG – April 2023

Posted on May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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TD Synnex & VMware Networking and Security Day

TD Synnex & VMware Networking and Security Day

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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vSphere HomeLab: Part 1 - Hardware

vSphere HomeLab: Part 1 – Hardware

Posted on April 14, 2023September 1, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Determining Hard Disks In vSphere

Determining Hard Disks In vSphere

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Removing old vCenter plugins

Removing old vCenter plugins

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Graeme Lewis

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

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Exporting VMs from VMware Fusion on macOS Big Sur\Monterey

Exporting VMs from VMware Fusion on macOS Big Sur\Monterey

Posted on January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 by Graeme Lewis

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…

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VMUG Advantage

VMUG Advantage

Posted on March 17, 2021May 1, 2021 by tech-e.admin

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…

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