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TPM chips the achilles heel of re-purposing old hardware for vSphere
Read more: TPM chips the achilles heel of re-purposing old hardware for vSphereINTRO Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips went into common usage in the early 2000s when the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) was formed by Intel and other companies to enhance hardware security by providing a secure environment for cryptographic operations and secure key storage TPM chips typically measure about 1 x 1 inch or smaller, if…
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VMware PowerCLI automation for vSphere environmental checks
Read more: VMware PowerCLI automation for vSphere environmental checksThe TASK New automation efforts are often born from the need to automate repetitive tasks. I was a dedicated virtualization consultant from 2017 to early 2024. During that time, I’d often get engaged to help out customers who were running into performance and scalability issues with their vSphere environments, sometimes it started with the dreaded…
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vSan 8 express architecture on HP EliteDesk G4 home lab kit
Read more: vSan 8 express architecture on HP EliteDesk G4 home lab kitMy lab is in an in-between state, with 3x HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFFs (Skylake i5-6500) and two new HP EliteDesk 800 G4 units (i7-8700). Until last week, the 3x HP EliteDesk G3s were in a 3 node vSan 7 setup (non express architecture) which is Samsung 860 standard SSD for storage and Samsung evo…
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Disable persistent scratch log(s) on home lab ESXi hostss
Read more: Disable persistent scratch log(s) on home lab ESXi hostssNOTE: The following advice would NOT be for prod workloads where you may require scratch logs to be persisted between reboots should you need to send them to your hardware vendor or VMware directly Hopefully you find this blog post while searching for a solution as I did this week, I had to cobble together…
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