Tag Archive: VSS

Migrate ESXi VMkernel Port Group To A vSphere Standard Switch

One thing I don’t do very often is to move an ESXi VMkernel port group from a vDistributed Switch (vDS/VDS) to a vSphere Standard Switch/Virtual Standard Switch (VSS). It’s usually the other way around, right? So when I had that question last week I had to look it up in the UI and this is …

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Heads Up! No More Third Party Virtual Switches API For ESXi

Update 2017-04-01 No it is official, see VMware KB 2149722 for more information. —————————————————————————————– Since I know quite a few of my customers are using third party switches in their vSphere environment instead of the VMware native Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) or vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS) i wanted to provide you with some information I have …

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Install And Manage Nutanix Guest Tools

Updated 2018-06-25:  Link to blog post to Manage Nutanix Guest Tools For Cloned VMs Updated 2017-11-15:Information about how to check NGT status in Linux based VMs ————————————————————————————— In the Nutanix Guest Tools blog post i explained what Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) is and what features it provides. This blog post will focusing on the installation of NGT in …

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Nutanix Data Protection – Secure your data

While doing customer, partner and event presentations the last couple of weeks i have been asked quite a lot of questions and one question that seems to pup up every time is about Nutanix Data Protection. This blog post (first in a series of blog posts) will outline how to configure Nutanix Data Protection within …

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