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You may encounter this screen when trying to install Official Release Windows 11 on VMware workstation or VMware Fusion. This message:  "The PC doesn't meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows." If you head over to the system requirements for Windows 11, you will notice on significant item that caught my eye. It needs TPM. Lucky for VMware Workstation and Fusion, both has the ability to add a virtual TPM. But before you can add that you need to turn on Encryption and set a password for that. After that, Add Device... and choose Trusted Platform Module . Once that is done your can just power up and install away.

Today marks the release of the next iteration of vSphere. Most changes are the improvement of existing features and that includes what is embedded together with ESXi which is vSAN . First, vCenter Appliance will support Single Sign On domain with embedded PSC with Hybrid Linked mode. During this release, support for the upgrade with older vCenter Server with External PSC will not be possible at release. External PSC setup is still supported. There is a Hybrid Linked Mode which will support on prem vCenter Server 6.7 with VMware Cloud on AWS vCenter Server 6.5. Lastly, this is also the last release support for vCenter Windows Server as mentioned in the last release . There will be a backup tool and can be scheduled to help manage vCenter recovery process. In terms of migration to vCSA, the migration tool allows asynchronize background process to reduce the amount of downtime. The HTML5 Client (Clarity UI) has not feature priority up to 95%, up from version 6.5. Yo...

Been to many customers and have many questions on how our vSphere 6.5 Security enhancement does and how different is it from others. So to clear some of the questions and also the articles that are available below will provide more details. A good place to start is read up this VMware blog post by Mike Foley.  This post detail the new UEFI for ESXi and for VMs and on VM Encryption.  Let us break down some questions that are asked often or unclear: 1) Does all OSes support UEFI? Modern versions of OS like Microsoft Windows 2012, RedHat 5 and Suse Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 and above .  Unless we are talking about older OS that are dependent on BIOS. 2) Who provide the UEFI firmware? The hardware server vendors that allows OS or hypervisor to be installed on to be boot from.  Hypervisor or virtualization software vendor that allows running of virtual machine to boot from. 3) How can we prevent BIOs, hypervisor and OS been compromise? The use of UEFI is to en...