Designing vSAN Networks – 2022 Edition vSAN ESA
Back in 2019, I wrote an update on common vSAN network design choices. I thought it would be a good idea to by discussing how these questions have aged, and what new questions have come up. VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ (ESA) is helping customers drive new levels of extreme […]
Upgrade Cluster to ESXi 8 using Images
Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade a vSphere 7 cluster to version 8.0 using a cluster Image.
VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware Explore Europe 2022
Hola! After 2+ years, we are back again in-person at VMware Explore Europe 2022 and we are super excited to see you in Barcelona. As usual, VMware Cloud on AWS has a big presence at the event. We will be bringing together lots of new and exciting content through breakout sessions, tutorials, […]
Modernize Your Legacy Citrix Environment with VMware Horizon
Deliver management, networking, and security benefits that others can’t. Modernize your legacy environment with VMware Horizon. Learn more.
Azure VMware Solution Designlets
Short-form guides that describe a specific feature or design paradigm. They help identify nuanced considerations and design impacts for that particular component. Designlets also serve as a quick-reference guide for a given feature providing key highlights and links to additional resources.
Quick Tip – TPM 2.0 connection cannot be established after upgrading to ESXi 8.0
There has been several reports from folks internally and within the community that after upgrading to ESXi 8.0, they are now seeing the following TPM error message: TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established. The common theme between all the reported cases that […]
Day 0: Deep Dive into VMware Aria
Want to get the most out of VMware Aria at VMware Explore Europe? Join us on “Day 0”. 7 — 10 November 2022 | Barcelona, Spain. The opening day of our marquis event has traditionally been a quiet ramp-up to three days of dense content following thereafter, but this year, we are going against […]
Upgrading a Standalone vSphere Host With esxcli
Using esxcli to upgrade a vSphere host from ESXi 7.x to 8.0.
Delete vROps Adapter Instances via Suite-API
For whatever reason, you’re having issues deleting a vROps Adapter Instance from the UI, here’s how you do it from the vROps Suite-API. Go to your vROps Suite-API URL: […]
SDDC.Lab v5 Released
We’re proud to announce that we’ve just released SDDC.Lab Version 5! For those of you that are not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployments of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center Pods including solutions like […]
VMware ESXi 8.0 New Host Client 2 and Logo
Well, many of us are undoubtedly underway upgrading and testing out the new vSphere 8 in our home lab environments. The new release has many exciting new things to play around with. However, one that is exciting with ESXi is the new Host Client 2, which is included with ESXi 8. VMware has […]
Quick Tip – Automating ESXi 8.0 install using allowLegacyCPU=true
For those looking to install ESXi 8.0 but have an unsupported CPU, the following kernel boot option allowLegacyCPU=true can be added which would bypass the installer pre-check as shown in the screenshot below. When the ESXi installer bypass happens, instead of an error which forces you to reboot,[…]
Using the vSphere Replication REST API Gateway
At long last, APIs for vSphere Replication with the latest 8.6 release! What everyone has been asking for 🎉 More details here […]
VMware Tanzu + cnvrg.io: Enabling Enterprise-Grade MLOps
Continuous training and deployment capabilities have become recurrent discussion topics when talking to data science teams, regardless of industry type or company size. They continually surface as the primary obstacles to deploying and managing ML models as part of business applications. It […]
NSX-T 3.2: Micro-Segmentation Only Deployment – Manual Setup
One of the simpler VMware NSX-T deployments is a Micro-Segmentation only deployment. Talking with other VMware consultants, typically 60 to 70% of projects start off with the deployment of just Micro-segmentation and then build up from there. […]
View Locker Object Password using API in vRSLCM 8.x
This blog post explains the procedure on how to review the password of a stored locker object using API method.
vROps Upgrade 8.6.4 to 8.10
Take a snapshot of vROps product using vRSLCM. Then click on upgrade; that would prompt you to trigger an inventory sync to start with and then one can proceed Once inventory sync is complete proceed with next […]
Replacing the vCenter Machine Certificate …and don’t forget the VxRail Manager
The topic of certificates seems to be haunting me at the moment. Anyway, I want to briefly show here how easy it is nowadays to replace the SSL certificate of the vCenter with an Enterprise CA-signed one. If you look at the KB article […]
Dynamically assign applications with VMware App Volumes
Publish applications easier to users with VMware App Volumes and lower the number of images you need to maintain.
What’s New in Aria Operations 8.10
*Formerly vRealize Operations. I am excited to announce that Aria Operations 8.10 is available today. This release is a giant update loaded with features that will make using Aria Operations even easier. We have created new application discovery methods, strengthened the public cloud monitoring [..]
