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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…