Yet another fruity blog taking a byte into virtualisation

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VMware Announcement Day

So I know the internet is going to be flooded with blogs about all the announcements from VMware today and I have a few I will release over the next…

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March 10, 2020

#vExpert, Uncategorised, VMUG

UKVMUG Charity Bag

So last week I attended the UKVMUG and I was fortunate enough to speak there (which is another blog post) but myself and Rob Bishop decided to auction off some…

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December 17, 2018

VMware

RTX Voice on non RTX cards is here!

So I published a way of levelling up your webinars, meetings, VMUGs or interviews here and for my setup at the time I used an RTX 2080 of which that…

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April 7, 2021

VMware

ESXi running on a i9 MacBook

So I was trying out some lab things recently and many of you know I have always had a fondness for Mac’s in my environment. I thought I would take…

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February 16, 2021

Amazon, AWS, VDI

Amazon AWS WorkSpaces Kiosk Mode

So recently I have been working on a solution for creating a way for some of our users during a POC to access AWS WorkSpaces with some HP T520 thin…

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March 13, 2018

Home Lab

Adding Runecast to my Grafana monitoring

Gareth / May 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

Firstly a disclaimer:- This post is 100% my own opinion and it is not emphasising that you should use this with the Runecast product and that they are currently my employer at the…

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Home Lab, Nutanix, VMware

vmNception – vSphere running Nutanix running ESXi

Gareth / May 5, 2021 / 0 Comments

So in my new role I am finding more and more that I need to evaluate more varied and even edge case customer environments. One recently being a Nutanix environment running ESXi. My…

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Home Lab, VMware

RDP a different way, HTML5 and using Linux!

Gareth / April 26, 2021 / 0 Comments

So for a while I have been trying to create a new lab of which I may want to share with other to help out their learning paths with some of my mentees…

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EUC, Horizon, VDI, VMware

Horizon Deployment on single node vSAN

Gareth / April 12, 2021 / 0 Comments

So recently I have decided to do some updates to my home lab until I can afford the jump to some nice SuperMicro machines. With my recently role change I wanted to expand…

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VMware

RTX Voice on non RTX cards is here!

Gareth / April 7, 2021 / 1 Comment

So I published a way of levelling up your webinars, meetings, VMUGs or interviews here and for my setup at the time I used an RTX 2080 of which that and newer cards…

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VMware

VMware Cloud Event

Gareth / March 31, 2021 / 0 Comments

On April 1st (In EMEA/SGT) and 31st March (In Americas) VMware have a great event for cloud transformation. Head over here now to register There is a great line up of speakers below,…

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Backup, Veeam

Veeam Vanguard 2021

Gareth / March 1, 2021 / 0 Comments

So despite me still needing to blog about some stuff I had some great news on Friday afternoon here in the UK as per the title to find out that I have been…

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VMware

ESXi running on a i9 MacBook

Gareth / February 16, 2021 / 2 Comments

So I was trying out some lab things recently and many of you know I have always had a fondness for Mac’s in my environment. I thought I would take a little bit…

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Time to Level Up to a KB Hunter… New year and a new role

Gareth / February 11, 2021 / 0 Comments

So I am sure many of us are starting to really feel the Zoom/Virtual meeting fatigue by now or just generally feeling we need to go see people we know. I for one…

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#vExpert, Open TechCast

Levelling up your webinars, meetings, VMUGs or interviews

Gareth / December 31, 2020 / 1 Comment

So a little while a go I did some live demos for UKVMUG (Baking some ESXi into your Pi) along with a few other things of which I was provided some really nice…

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