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VMware/Broadcom kills the Free vSphere Hypervisor

17 February 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe free edition of VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is no longer available on the VMware website. Note: on April 2025 the free version is back again! As explained in KB 2107518, on February 16th 2024, VMware announces the End Of General Availability of the Free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x and 8.x). As part of the transition of perpetual licensing to new subscription offerings, the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (Free Edition) has been marked as EOGA (End of General Availability).

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Veeam CDP – Manually VIB management

18 April 2023
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne requirement for using CDP replication with Veeam product is Installing I/O Filter on each cluster where the VMs that you plan to protect reside and where replicas will reside (on each ESXi host of the cluster). The CDP I/O Filter are basically a VAIO plugin added using a VIB package. To install the filter on a specific cluster using the Veeam Console just open the Inventory view. In the inventory pane, navigate to the Virtual Infrastructure > VMware vSphere > vCenter Servers > <vCenter Server Name> > <Cluster Name> node and right-click it. In the menu, select Install I/O filter. For more information see the Veeam documentation. […]

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Reminder: vSphere 6.5.x & vSphere 6.7.x will be End of General Support on October 15, 2022

9 October 2022
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording with Product Lifecycle Matrix and KB 89305, VMware has officially declared, vSphere 6.5.x and vSphere 6.7.x will be End of General Support by October 15th 2022. To maintain your full level of Support and Subscription Services, VMware recommends upgrading to vSphere 7.

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VMware vSphere snapshot recommended practices

15 September 2022
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA VM snapshot preserves the state and data of the VM at a specific point in time (the snapshot creation time). The data includes all the files that make up the VM. This includes disks, memory (if the VM is powered on and you enable also memory snapshot), and other devices, such as virtual network interface cards. A VM provides several operations for creating and managing snapshots and snapshot chains. These operations let you create snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots. You can create extensive snapshot trees.

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Replication is slower than backup in vSphere 7.0 and NBD transport mode

21 August 2022
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are using Veeam Backup & Replication (but also other backup solution) you can perform both backup and replication with the same tool. But with latest version of vSphere you can probably notice a huge difference between backup and replication speed if you are using NBD transport mode.

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What is the latest vSphere version on December 2021?

6 December 2021
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Reading Time: 2 minutesEasy question, but much more complicated answer. If you go to https://vmware.com/downloads you can found a strange combo of versions:

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Installing ESXi 7.0 on VMware Workstation

16 April 2020
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you try to install VMware ESXi 7.0 in a nested VM inside VMware Workstation (but same apply also for Fusion and Player) you are not able to start the installer phase. The ESXi 7.0 installer start correctly but then will hang on this error message:

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