Category: Home Lab
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Lab Workbook: A Beginner’s End-to-End Hands-On Task List
An instructor-style VCF 9 lab workbook for beginners: a lab-pod map, the phase-by-phase journey, a snapshot and rollback strategy, and grouped task tables from prep and bring-up through workload domains, NSX, storage, certificates, operations, upgrade, backup and teardown – with success-validation checks and a competency sign-off rubric.
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How to – Install VMware Workstation 14.0
VMware workstation is Type 1 hypervisor. It is the industry standard for running multiple operating systems on a single Linux or Windows PC. We generally use for our test or home labs. Steps: – Download the ISO image of VMware workstation 14.0 from Vmware website. Click on ISO image setup file. Click on next Click…
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How to – Install OpenFiler Storage
Here is Step by Step procedure to install OpenFiler. We were exploring the same in our Home lab. Steps: – Click on New Virtual Machine and Select typical and Click Next. Click on Installer Disc image file and click Next. Select the Operating system and click Next Click on browse and select the path drive…
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How to Install Domain Controller in Windows Server
In this blog, we are going to write step by step procedure on how to install a Domain Controller for new environment. This is what we explored when we were setting up our home lab for Virtualized Environment. Go to Run and Type the command DCPROMO Click on Next. Click on Next. Select button on…
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How to Install Domain Controller in Windows Server
In this blog, we are going to write step by step procedure on how to install a Domain Controller for new environment. This is what we explored when we were setting up our home lab for Virtualized Environment. Go to Run and Type the command DCPROMO Click on Next. Click on Next. Select button on…
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vCenter 6.7 Installation | Error -VMware Virtualcenter failed firstboot. Failed to generate VirtualCenter symmetric encryption key.
We were setting up our home lab for vSphere 6.7 environment and we are using Windows based Virtual Center. Error: VMware Virtualcenter failed firstboot. Failed to generate VirtualCenter symmetric encryption key. Environment: Operating System: Window Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition, Service Pack 1 Database for Virtual Center – Using embedded Database(vPostgres) for VCDB vCenter Version…
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vCenter 6.7 Installation | Error: Universal C Runtime is not installed on the system.
While deploying windows based Virtual Center 6.7, I faced below error. Error: Universal C Runtime is not installed on the system. You can download it from Microsoft website and install. Solution: Download latest pack of Microsoft Visual C++ 2015. Install the package and retry vCenter Installation. It will fix the issue. Thanks for visiting here.…
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vCenter 6.7 Installation | Error 1722. There is a problem with this windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected
While Installing the windows based Virtual Center in my home lab, I found this error during initial steps of Installation. Environment: Operating System: Window Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition, Service Pack 1 Database for Virtual Center – Using embedded Database(vPostgres) for VCDB vCenter Version – vCenter 6.7.0c vCenter Type – Windows based Virtual Center Error:…
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Deep Dive – Choosing Openfiler for your Home Lab
Hey All, Here we came with the new deep dive topic for choosing the Openfiler as storage for your virtual environment. Here we are going to setup our lab before we explore anything new. Initially, we are using 4 physical machines to setup our Virtualization lab. Out of these 4 servers or can say workstations,…
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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