Introduction VMware just made public the “initial” release of vSphere, vCenter, and vSAN 8.0. Obviously, the first thing to do is to test the releases in a testing environment to make sure everything works as it is supposed to but…
Introduction In our previous post Connect VMware Tanzu with Azure Arc , we connected VMware vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster to Microsoft Azure Arc which provided some features around tagging, inventory, logging, policy mgmt. and others but lacked…
Introduction If there is one advantage introduced by open-source to the virtualization community, it is that, vendor lock-in is a thing of the past now and vendors have come at last to embrace the new normal. VMware and Microsoft are…
Introduction I run a physical lab for some workloads and a nested lab for others ( since my servers are old and cannot be upgraded to vSphere 7 ) which leads me to turn off the nested ESXi’s for sometimes…
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Introduction I have been a fan of social engineering for years now ever since I was 15 years old and heard about Kevin Mitnick adventures with the coin-operated public telephone, there is just a certain human centric appeal to it…
Introduction I have always had my MikroTik router VPN configured with Microsoft Azure using policy based VPN which uses IKEv1 so I wanted to move to an route based VPN leveraging IKEv2 which would give me more granular security and…
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Introduction VMware just released vCenter 7, vSphere 7, and vSAN 7 to the public introducing long awaited features such as Kubernetes integration, Improved DRS, Lifecycle Manager, intrinsic security, and hybrid cloud services. In this post I am going to walk…
Introduction Disclaimer: This is a personal blog. Any views or opinions represented in this blog are personal and belong solely to the blog owner and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner may or may…