Running vSAN ESA? Change the default storage policy to RAID-5/6!
Most of you have read all about vSAN ESA by now. If you have not, you can find my article here, and a dozen articles on core.vmware.com by the Tech Marketing team. What is going to make a huge difference with the Express Storage Architecture is that you get RAID-5 efficiency at RAID-1 […]
Take a look at all the {code} theatre sessions coming to VMware Explore Europe 👀
VMware Explore Europe is just under a month away! 🎉 Tune in here to get sneak peeks at all of our {code}Theater Sessions – And don’t forget to join {code} today! https://developer.vmware.com/join
Enhancing Microservices Security with Project Trinidad
Microservices — fine-grained, often single-function and containerized services — offer great convenience and resiliency for application developers. Whether purchased and integrated or built in-house, these services are a great way to provide functionality that can be added in, upgraded, or […]
📆 Before VMware Explore: Exclusive Learning Events
You’re invited to @VMwareExplore Europe 2022! Join us in Barcelona from November 7-10 and take advantage of the pre-event festivities, including: ➡️ #VCDX Workshops ➡️ The VCDX Townhall ➡️ #VMwareLearning Partner Forums and more!
How to correctly Backup & Restore VMware vCenter Server (VCSA) 8
Rather than using external backup solutions, VMware highly recommend that you take a file-level backup of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
The State of Kubernetes
Kubernetes is now a platform too big to ignore, with companies deploying clusters in record numbers. See the data for yourself.
Announcing General Availability of the vCenter Converter 6.3
More than three years after the last release, the new vCenter Converter 6.3 is now generally available. We are proud to announce the official return of one of the most popular products within the VMware customer community. After the success of the Beta version, which accumulated more than 1500 […]
Configuring Antrea NodePortLocal with NSX ALB on TKG – nsxbaas
Overview Antrea CNI offers a very handy feature called NodePortLocal which runs as part of the Antrea agents. This feature allows exposed Pod to be accessed from external network using specific ports opened only on the node on which that pod is running. This enables better integration with […]
VMware Edge Network Intelligence: Use AIOps for Efficiency and Security
Updated 10/13/2022 Part 2: AIOps Provides SD-WAN Branches Superior Performance and Security Note. This is the second in a four-part series about how VMware Edge Network Intelligence™ enables better insights for IT into client device experience and client behavior. In this article, learn more […]
Enabling vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture (ESA) using Nested ESXi
To get the full benefits and support of the new vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture (ESA), you will need modern hardware from the official vSAN ESA Ready Node HCL. However, from an education and learning point of view, you may want to explore some of the VSAN ESA workflows and easiest way […]
Automated vSphere & vSAN 8 Lab Deployment Script
🎉 vSphere 8.0 (IA) Initial Availability is LIVE! 🎉 FYI: RN still being published vCenter📒
VMware SD-WAN Makes Working From Home Seamless
The explosion of work from home (WFH) employees has accelerated the need for ‘last mile’ enterprise connections to perform as well as onsite ones. Unfortunately, the inherent limitations in WAN—combined with ever-increasing broadband congestion—presents a variety of challenges. Come hear […]
🚀 Announcing: vSphere 8 Initial Availability
We are excited to announce the initial availability of vSphere 8, now available for download. This is a production quality major release with massive improvements that bring the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads, supercharge performance through DPUs and GPUs, and accelerate […]
Announcing General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
We are pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5. This version of VMware’s multi-cloud platform was announced at VMware Explore 2022 as part of our introduction of VMware Cloud Foundation+. VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5 is the first version of Cloud Foundation to [..]
VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics Tool
Recently I had an engagement to take a look at an underperforming vSphere estate owned by a client. The engagement had been escalated my way as – by their own admission – the client were not at all familiar with complex vSphere diagnosis and they needed some consulting to get them back on track [..]
Unified Observability by VMware Aria Operations for Applications
Learn more about unified observability that’s enterprise ready and scalable in this solution brief.
SDDC Manager command line history?
A quick post on how to enable SDDC Manager command line history in VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.x since the functionality changed in that release.
Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) API to patch group of ESXi hosts
An interesting vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) question that has already come up a few times in the past two weeks is whether vLCM can remediate (patch/upgrade) a specific group of ESXi host(s)? Today, there are two ways in which vLCM can remediate ESXi hosts within a vSphere Cluster. […]
vSphere and ESXi 8.0: The Unsupported
With the release of any software major version update, there are always those that get left behind.
What’s New with Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication 8.6
Technical overview of what’s new in Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication 8.6
