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PowerCLI Cheatsheet

TL;DR commands, snippets, functions, etc that I have found useful while screwing around with creating & configuring VMs and managing ESXi…

Automating VM creation in VMware ESXi with PowerCLI

TL;DR howto automate creation and initial configuration of a VM in VMware ESXi.

Creating Flexible Workspaces Through Desktop Virtualization

The workplace has evolved beyond traditional office environments. Employees now expect secure access to business applications and data from…

🔍 Microsoft AD-Integrated DNS’de Gizli Bir Davranış: Neden Aynı DNS Kaydı Eski Harf Formatıyla…

💡 Geçtiğimiz günlerde VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) kurulumu sırasında oldukça ilginç bir DNS davranışıyla karşılaştık.

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMwareCritical Patches: Why Browser and Enterprise Updates Cannot Wait

Download macOS Sonoma VMDK for VMware or VirtualBox

Want to run macOS Sonoma on a Windows PC without creating a virtual disk yourself?

Seamless Hybrid Cloud Adoption: A Professional Services Firm’s VMware Success

You know professional service firms juggle client projects across locations and need flexible setups. I helped one adopt hybrid cloud with…

VMware NSX Enables Secure Network Modernization for a Global Financial Services Company

You know global financial companies juggle networks that span countries and must stay secure always. I worked with one that brought in…

How a Mid-Sized Retailer Cut Costs by 40% Migrating Legacy Systems to VMware vSphere

You know mid sized retailers run on old servers that eat money fast. I worked with one that switched their legacy setups to VMware vSphere…

Building Bulletproof Continuity: A Bank’s VMware-Based Disaster Recovery Success Story

Many understand that banks face crazy pressure to keep systems running no matter what hits. I worked with one that turned to VMware for…

Allstate’s VMware Exit Turned Into an Audit War, and Customers Are Furious

Allstate’s decision to leave VMware and CA should have been an ordinary enterprise technology story. A major customer reviews its software…

Suspicious Child Processes Spawned by VMware Tools: An EDR/XDR Detection Blind Spot

How PowerShell executed through VMware Guest Operations bypasses default endpoint detections and how defenders can detect it.

Leaving VMware: Should You Lift Your VMs into Kubernetes, or Modernise into Containers?

Blog Objective: Leaving VMware? A decision guide to choosing between lifting VMs into Kubernetes with KubeVirt and modernising workloads…

The 3-Host VMware Trap, and the Escape Hatch That Costs About Half

Broadcom went subscription-only, hardware prices are spiking, and small clusters now pay enterprise rates. Here’s what changed and what it…

Setting Up Your First Pentesting Lab: A Beginner’s Guide to Kali + VMware (And Why It Breaks)

You download Kali Linux. Spin it up in VMware. Hit start.

Modernización de Infraestructura Empresarial: más allá de migrar de VMware a Proxmox

Durante años, VMware fue una de las plataformas más utilizadas para virtualización empresarial. Sin embargo, los cambios en costos y…

Reduce VMware Migration Risk: Four Planning Checks for the First 6 Months

VMware migration risks can be reduced through early planning: workload mapping, cost baseline, pilot validation, and rollback design.

From Legacy Apps to AI Agents: Modernising Securely with GitLab and VMware VKS

Many enterprises want the speed of cloud-native software delivery.

ESXi 8 Error Code Fix: Real-World Troubleshooting for ESXCLI Memory Limits, TPM Hangs, and CPU…

Taming the ESXi 8 Beast: Confessions of a Hardened Sysadmin

Breaking things on purpose—01

Welcome to the series of breaking things on purpose, where you will learn some real-world scenario troubleshooting with Capstone. This…

Automated, Approved, and Audited VM Patching with Kestra

Patching is slow, risky, and compliance-heavy. We turn this into one resilient automation flow you can read top to bottom in a single YAML…

vSAN and Hyperconverged Infrastructure: What They Don’t Tell You Before You Deploy

Introduction

How VMware vSwitches Power Invisible Network Speeds

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Why Most Virtualization Migrations Fail Before the First VM Is Moved

The post-mortem often blames the migration tool, the network, or “unexpected compatibility issues.” But the real root cause was never the…

KVM VPS vs OpenVZ vs VMware: Complete Guide

When you are buying or maintaining a VPS server, the selection of virtualization technology is one of the most crucial things you will do…

如何從 VMware ESXi 將 Windows 虛擬機遷移到 Proxmox VE (Automatic Import)

上一篇介紹完如何遷移 Linux 虛擬機器之後，今天就來分享如何從 VMware ESXi 將 Windows 虛擬機遷移到 Proxmox VE。

Arcfra AECP Outperforms VMware vSAN by 15% for Omissa VDI: Testing and Tuning

Arcfra AECP beats VMware vSAN by 15% for Omnissa VDI after tuning, delivering faster file copies and lower TCO.

Navigating VMware Migration: From Planning to Execution

Full VMware VM migration guide: compatibility check, planning, environment prep, pre-migration test, and smooth final migration.

Onde jamais estive: automatizando pequenas ações e cruzando dados no Windows PowerShell

Existem tarefas que o Excel resolve muito bem, mas quando o assunto envolve rotinas diárias e grandes volumes de dados, precisamos de uma…

Openstack ve VMware Ortamları için MCP Tabanlı AIOps Yaklaşımı

Modern altyapı yönetimi artık yalnızca birkaç sanal makineyi ayakta tutmaktan ibaret değil. Bugünün veri merkezlerinde VMware VCF kümeleri…

如何從 VMware ESXi 將 Liunx 虛擬機遷移到 Proxmox VE (Automatic Import)

建議在正式環境進行遷移之前，請先使用測試用虛擬機完整演練整個流程，確認磁碟轉換、開機流程與網路設定皆正常運作，以降低實際搬遷時發生意外中斷的風險。

VMware’s VCF 9.1 Upgrade Tool Exists Because the Upgrade Path Has Become a Maze

There’s a very specific kind of dread that hits infrastructure teams when a vendor releases an “interactive upgrade planning tool.” On the…

Orchestrate VMware Without the Legacy Automation Layer

Lifecycle management, snapshot automation, and infrastructure event triggers for vSphere environments

Downloading macOS Tahoe VMDK Saved Me Hours of VM Setup

I wanted to test macOS Tahoe on my Windows PC without spending hours building a virtual machine from scratch.

Why My Ubuntu VMware VM Stayed Huge on Windows After I Deleted Files

Inside Ubuntu, the VM looked fine.

Downloading a macOS Monterey ISO Safely (and Creating One Yourself)

I noticed something when helping people install macOS on virtual machines:

What Happens When Virtualization Costs Suddenly Double?

When Infrastructure Economics Break the Model

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 in a VM From VMware vCenter

By now, on May 26th 2026, the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is 10.2. And we’re gonna do some test to install RHEL 10.2…

Déploiement et Exploitation d’un SIEM avec Wazuh

Les compétences acquises tout au long du lab déploiement d’un SIEM, intégration d’agents, corrélation de logs, analyse d’alertes, …

Turning One Server into Ten Under Linux: A Foolproof Guide to Linux Virtualization

Over the years working in operations, I’ve seen countless companies spend big money on servers, only to run one service per machine with…

The Titans of Enterprise Infrastructure: A Unified Blueprint for the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Era

Introduction :

ESXi Support Bundle Triage: Ransomware, CVEs, and Persistence in One Pass

vmware-esxi-triage is a single-file bash script that ingests an ESXi support bundle and emits a forensic triage report…

VMware ESXi 8.0U3e Is Now Available With Free Hypervisor Licensing

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Stuck on Broadcom’s pending verification screen? Here is how to bypass the bug and download VMware Fusion/Workstation directly for your…

為醋包餃子

折騰了一大圈，解決了一堆問題，竟然又回到了起點。好吧，算了算了。

VM Images

There are a lot of choice for image types when migrating an existing workload to Cloud or doing coursework with the provided VM. This…

Mastering Nested Virtualization: Custom Linux Kernel with KVM Inside VirtualBox

Cloud computing enthusiasts and Linux lovers, get ready! In this guide, we’ll walk through building a custom Linux kernel inside a nested…

The Certification Path and Its Traps

Real Competence vs Paper Authority for Pre-Sales

How to Install OpenWrt on VMware Workstation in Windows (Quick Guide)

1. Download and Extract Image

VMware vSphere: Manuel VM Yedekleme Stratejileri ve vMotion Mekanizması

Veri merkezi yönetiminde yedekleme yazılımlarına erişimin kısıtlı olduğu senaryolarda veya izole ortamlarda, sanal makine (VM) verilerinin…