Sometimes we are in a hurry when installing a vSphere environment and forget little things like entering license keys, especially the vCenter license key. Remember, the vCenter license that comes with VMware vSphere, the vCenter Server evaluation license, lasts … Read More
One of the most important parts of a new VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 deployment is updating your VMware license. This should be a part of any validation plan you perform before the environment goes live. Unfortunately, I did not listen … Read More
If you are asking yourself the question “What is VMware?”, you have come to the right place. VMware is a company which was founded in 1998. Today, the company has evolved and has many many products and services to offer … Read More
If you have worked with virtual machines, then you are familiar with the VMware icon that lives in your system tray. That little icon represents something called VMware tools. VMware tools can be downloaded from VMware’s website, or they may … Read More
Anyone who has ever been an administrator or operator of an IT environment can agree, it is no fun digging through logs in the middle of an issue. Even though vSphere 6.5 has a great, searchable log browser for ESXi … Read More
When it comes to managing a VMware vSphere inventory, things can get crazy. Being able to determine what a virtual machine or other vSphere object actually does can be influence by any number of things from the naming convention in … Read More