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VMware has released the Photos OS 4.0 beta use cases. Project Photon OS is an open-source, minimal Linux container host that is optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure. Photon OS 3.0 introduces ARM64 support, installer improvements, and updated packages. VMware invites partners, customers, and community members to collaborate on using Photon OS … Read more
VMware has introduced a new download page for VMware Tools and included it in the product lifecycle matrix. We all know the benefits of VMware Tools for a Virtual Machine. It is an indispensable component of the vSphere environment, be it to enhance the VM’s overall performance or to ensure that VMs are secure, safeguarded, … Read more
In this simple blog I’ll let you know the basic esxcli commands using which you can get the VMware ESXi software version. It is sometimes needed to know the exact version of ESXi software running in the hypervisor for troubleshooting or may be other technical purposes. Steps To Get VMware ESXi Version From Command Line … Read more
In this blog, I’ll guide you on how you can enable Function Keys (Fn) on Dell or laptop. This is a very common issue when you buy new laptops or settings that are disabled. Let’s start enabling Function Keys on the Windows 10 machine. Sometime function keys are important than Secondary Keys such as Voice, … Read more
VMware tools are an important additional utility installed in the guest operating system. The Tools service starts when the guest operating system starts. The service establishes secure communication between the host and the guest operating systems. The program that runs in the background of a guest operating system is known as vmtoolsd.exe in Windows, vmware-tools-daemon in Mac … Read more
In this blog, we will see the basic difference between Clone and Template in VMware in the context of the virtual machine. What is a Clone in VMware? If you want to save the virtual machine state in case of any temporary backup purpose or before any patching activity, you would take a snapshot of … Read more
In this blog, I’ll be discussing some useful VMware vSAN commands for vSAN health checks and monitoring. These esxcli vsan commands will also help you to troubleshoot any issue that occurred in the environment related to vSAN. Let’s start. ESXCLI vSAN Commands The above commands will provide a list of overall health of vSAN components … Read more
In this blog, I will let you know about the vSAN Disk Balance in the VMware vSAN cluster. Let’s understand about vSAN, VMware vSAN aggregates local or direct-attached data storage devices, to create a single storage pool shared across all hosts in a vSAN cluster. vSAN is very much similar to SAN storage with some special features. To … Read more
I’ll let you know about the VMware vCenter alarm ‘Host Battery Status’ displayed on an ESXi host. Sometimes that alarm is triggered but it always moves back to green after a while. You may ignore this host battery status warning message but if it persists for a long time, you really need to check the … Read more
The error of network uplink redundancy lost is a very common issue with VMware ESXi hosts. It occurs when the secondary network interface is not connected or in a degraded state to the ESXi host. An alarm reports a loss of uplink redundancy on a vSphere standard or a distributed switch for a host. At … Read more