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I happen to have a background in both VMware vSphere design and disaster recovery, however these two things are not often talked about in tandem.  In this guide, I’m going to walk you through some of the most important considerations when it comes to designing and building a vSphere based disaster recovery environment.  I’ll also …

Lately I’ve seen a several instances in the news talking about ransomware targeting ESXi servers.  While it doesn’t surprise me much at all, it has been gaining a lot of attention.  With the amount of environments that are virtualized today, the focus seems to be on recovery of virtual machines versus the recovery of the …

Recently, I was able to get my hands on one of the VMware Cloud Solutions for a project I was working on. This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now, and I finally had the prefect use case. While I focused on one particular VMware Cloud Solution, there are several options …

The VMware vSphere Client is one of the key ways in which you will interact with your VMware vSphere environment.  Like most VMware products, the vSphere Client has evolved over time.  We are going to take a look at the evolution of the vSphere client, and what it means for you as a VMware vSphere …

When it comes to VMware vSphere as a whole, VMware ESXi, or the VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a critical component.  Often people ask me “Is ESXi free?”  The answer may surprise you, because it is “Yes!”  Let’s take a closer look at the requirements and features of the free version of ESXi, and some use …

If you are talking about a vSphere host, you may see or hear people refer to them as ESXi, or sometimes ESX.  No, someone didn’t just drop the i, there was a previous version of the vSphere Hypervisor called ESX.  You may also hear ESX referred to as ESX classic or ESX full form.   …