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Installing ESXi 8 with an unsupported CPU

25 Gennaio 2025
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Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, as describiled in Broadcom’s article 318697 (CPU Support Deprecation and Discontinuation In vSphere Releases). The result if the following error message if you try to install ESXi 8 on a server with an unsupported CPU:

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Tune your VMware lab: RAM

21 Ottobre 2019
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Reading Time: 4 minutesBuild a VMware lab is usually tricky because you have to find the proper balance between the physical and the virtual infrastructure. Most people does not have huge or powerful physical servers, or does not have the proper environment (considering the power consumption, the generated heat, the noise, or also the needed space), and they opt for small and cheap systems.

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Cisco CCNA lab guide

20 Ottobre 2017
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNeil Anderson, from Flackbox, has build an amazing free Cisco CCNA Lab Guide recently which can be used to pass the CCNA exam or as a configuration reference for Cisco routers and switches. There’s a few free guides online but they all cover old out of date exam topics and aren’t great quality, but this is guide really complete (350+ pages), up to date, with good quality and simple, which people can use completely for free.

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Link – Build a NetApp ONTAP 9 lab

6 Ottobre 2016
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNeil Anderson, from Flackbox, has realize a free ebook on ‘How to Build a NetApp ONTAP Lab… For Free’. In it he provide a complete step-by-step instructions, with screenshots, about how to build a fully ready and complete NetApp simulator lab from scratch, using NetApp’s latest operating system ONTAP 9. Almost all NetApp features can be practised and tested using the lab. You can use it as a study tool or for testing features before deploying them in your production environment. The book is available on this site.

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Testing the Tintri “Lightning Lab”

30 Luglio 2016
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Reading Time: 6 minutesTintri is a well know storage vendor focused on VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtual and cloud environments working in a traditional scale-in model (dual controller with disks and you can expand the disks part), but also recently in a scale-out model using a federated node design that treats multiple Tintri VMstores (both all-flash and hybrid-flash nodes) as a pool of storage, greatly simplifying management, planning and resource allocation. But compared to other software based storage product you need Tintri boxes to make some tests, evaluate the product or just learn more. Or ask for the […]

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Ravello offre un servizio gratuito per i vExperts 2015

19 Giugno 2015
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Reading Time: 2 minutesRavello Smart Labs ha un’innovativa soluzione per eseguire workload VMware o KVM in ambienti di cloud pubblico a basso costo (Google o AWS) per scopi di development, test, training, lab o demo. Il tutto senza bisogno di convertire le vostre vostre VM! Ed è in grado persino di eseguire ambienti ESXi nested! Quindi molto utile per lab.

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Ravello System e la sua soluzione di Lab as a Service

15 Aprile 2015
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Reading Time: 9 minutesRavello Systems (nome curioso che fa pensare al paese campano e magari deriva proprio da lì) è un’azienda israeliana-americana nata nel 2011 con un’idea apperentemente folle di rivoluzionare il public cloud, almeno per quanto riguarda quello di tipo IaaS (idea valutata non così folle dagli investitori che hanno già finanziato in 3 diverse tornate). Ravello Smart Labs è un ambiente di public cloud IaaS che permette di eseguire VM in ambienti VMware o KVM per finalità di sviluppo, test, training o demo… il tutto in ambiente nested (ossia un ambiente virtualizzato dentro un altro ambiente […]

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