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  • VMware Hands on Labs: what is it?

    Jan 14, 2020

    Hi everyone, You may have heard me mention VMware Hands on Labs a few times, but what exactly is it? VMware Hands on Labs allows you to test drive products within your browser, at no cost. With HOL, you can evaluate the features and functionality of VMware products without the need to have your own physical lab …

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  • vExpert 2020 Applications

    Jan 9, 2020

    Hi everyone, EDIT: The vExpert 2020 first half applications are now closed! Don’t forget to apply for vExpert if you haven’t already! According to Twitter, the closing date has moved to 1/13 at 10 AM MT. Apply here with your blog posts, VMUG events, other events, talks, and much more. There are also more paths, like …

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  • VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1: Deploying management domain with VLC

    Jan 7, 2020

    Hello readers, In this part, we will be deploying VMware Cloud Foundation in a nested environment using vCF Lab Constructor, which you can read more about here. TLDR: it is a PowerShell script designed to automatically deploy vCF along with the management Workload Domain (WLD). VCF Lab Constructor (aka VLC) is a great …

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  • ESXi with TPS: more (shared) memory for your homelab

    Jan 3, 2020

    Hi everyone, This post will be about a nice trick I learned to get the maximum out of your VMware Homelab. TPS, or Transparent Page Sharing, is a function where, in short, multiple identical virtual memory pages are pointing to the same page within the memory of the host. Here is a whitepaper that goes more in-depth. …

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  • VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 0: Testing

    Dec 23, 2019

    Hi readers, Currently, I temporarily have access to a server with enough memory to run a Cloud Foundation lab until January 2nd 2020. This gave me the inspiration to build a Cloud Foundation lab and tinker around with it, along with tinkering with an automatic lab deployment script called VLC (VCF Lab Constructor). …

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  • More PowerCLI scripts to make life easier!

    Dec 11, 2019

    Hello! Inspired by my last blog post, here are more PowerCLI scripts to make life easier. Script one; get VMs on a specific host with a specific Port Group $viserver = "vCenter IP/FQDN here" $t_host = "ESXi FQDN/IP here as used in vCenter" $portgroup = "port group name here" Connect-VIServer $viserver Get-Cluster …

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  • Easy PowerCLI script to help migrate VMs from one network to the other.

    Dec 7, 2019

    Hi everyone, In this post I am sharing a PowerCLI script that I made in order to easily migrate VMs from one network to the other. There are two versions of this script, one version has a hard-coded ESXi/vCenter instance, and the other one asks for the vCenter on each run. Version 1 (hard coded ESXi/vCenter): Do { …

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  • Moved from NSX-T back to NSX-V

    Dec 4, 2019

    Hi everyone, This post will be out about me moving back from NSX-T to NSX-V due to weird deploying issues. NSX-V is no longer being developed, so this has caused me to try to migrate to the new NSX-T, however I moved back to NSX-V when my NSX-T Edge nodes started to fail. The Geneve tunnels to the ESXi host randomly …

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  • A much needed personal and VMware lab update

    Nov 25, 2019

    Hello everyone, Here’s an update on both my personal and lab situation. First of all, thank you for the few that have send me an email giving some advise and such. It is very much appreciated. Luckily, I am now able to go to a place where I get to work with servers and networking. They’ve even asked me to set up a …

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  • Adding a static route to ESXi

    Jul 22, 2019

    Hi readers, This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet. My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize …

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Michelle Goossens

A young student who is a fan of VMware. Running my own lab and blog, exploring the capabilities of VMware and how it all works, along with documenting my journey and any issues that may occur.

Recent Posts

  • End of the Lab
  • IRL: How the Dutch healthcare system is failing me 24/08/2023
  • Lab Update 01/08/2023 (with pictures) (hardware only)
  • Life update 25/07/2023
  • Cost savings in the Lab
  • Turning 21, life & lab updates
  • My Professional Certification/Training Goals for 202X
  • [Quick script] – Automatically scan for unmounted VMFS datastores and mount them

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