Category Archives: Vmware

How can I deploy Windows with a custom blocksize using SCCM ?

Posted on May 21, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction I had the task to figure out how to install Windows 10 with a blocksize of 16k in order to align with the deduplication of data on a HPE 3PAR Thin Technologies when used with VMWare ESXi 6.5 Update … Continue reading →

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How to find and extract VMWare ESXi drivers

Posted on May 17, 2019 by ncbrady

Introduction I use VMWare ESXi virtual machines at work and occasionally I need to add drivers to a new boot image. VMWare doesn’t make it easy. Here is an example of that. I needed to add NIC drivers for ESXi, … Continue reading →

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