High-end Dell Precision 7770 & 7670 laptops with 128GB memory for ESXi
I have been following the progress on the new Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM), which was announced earlier this year and is a new laptop memory standard that has been created by Dell. Dell intends to replace the aging SODIMM memory module, which are typically found in laptops and […]
HCX Network Ports | Cross-Site
A quarter go I shared HCX Network Ports with current product iconography. Managed to squeeze in another crayon moment today! Here is the cross-site version with equivalent iconography updates. 🖍️🧐 This one is good when discussing the intra-vSphere ecosystem complexity that HCX is able to […]
Heads Up – ESXi 8.0 Host Client unable to attach existing virtual disk to VM
A couple of days ago, I had received an email from a customer that after upgrading to ESXi 8.0, they were no longer able to attach an existing virtual disk (VMDK) to a VM using the ESXi Host Client, which is accessible by opening a browser to the Hostname/IP Address of your ESXi host. After […]
Better Cloud Migration with HCX, vRNI, and VMware Flings with Frances Wong
In this episode, we talk with VMware Cloud on AWS product manager Frances Wong about her recent blog on automating and improving VMware Cloud Migrations. In the blog, she points out some key elements that most folks forget when the map out a migration to the cloud. She’ll also mention some tools you can use to -make your migration smoother. She’ll close with a discussion of how she recently worked on bringing VMware’s Hands On Labs to many of the most popular hyperscaler clouds at VMware…Read More
Democratize AI and ML for All Enterprises with VMware vSphere and NVIDIA AI Enterprise 3.0
Today all enterprises—large and small—want to leverage the huge potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). AI and ML have been used extensively by many organizations to deliver real value—from reducing stock-outs in retail and improving supply chains, to enhancing accuracy in voice recognition, the improvements are widespread. In fact, per Enterprise Strategy … Continued The post Democratize AI and ML for All Enterprises with VMware vSphere and NVIDIA AI Enterprise…Read More
VMware multi-cloud briefing with cool demo of Aria new possibilities
A cool demo of VMware Aria within the latest VMware multi-cloud briefing that has been just unveiled today can be found within this post and a video from VMware. The VMware Aria is the latest VMware multi-cloud offering that helps you track, monitor and migrate workloads across all cloud and […]
Broadcom and VMware: Investing for Customer Value
Hock Tan, Broadcom President & CEO: “I wanted to expand on my thoughts about the pending transaction and share more on how Broadcom will support VMware customers and innovate VMware products once the transaction closes.”
🏆 Five Times a Winner! VMware vSAN wins CRN’s Product of the Year Award for Soft…
VMware is pleased to announce that VMware vSAN has won CRN’s Product of the Year in the Software Defined Storage category for 2022! This is the fifth time that vSAN has won the award since vSAN was introduced in 2014, and the first time that VMware vSAN+, our new, premier hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offering which […]
Understanding VPN to Customer Created NSX T1s in VMC on AWS
VMC on AWS added the capability to configure customer created NSX T1s. These new T1s enable multiple use cases including but not limited to, network centric multi-tenancy, application tenancy and disaster recovery testing. A common requirement is to provide VPN access to the tenant’s T1 […]
DPDK binding with SRIOV in TCP
With VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5G Edition, you can use DPDK binding only with SR-IOV passthrough network device in the Worker Nodes. The SR-IOV passthrough network device in a Worker Node is backed by an SR-IOV Virtual Function (VF) in ESXi. Hence, the Secondary Network interface on the data […]
How to package your VDI apps with just a few clicks
App packaging in VDI is the most crucial step of the eight core activities of app lifecycle management. If app packaging is not done correctly it can lead to more unwanted iterations for IT, resource wastage, or a subpar user experience. It can also be the most expensive and time-consuming […]
VMware Explore 2022 – Recap
VMware Explore 2022 has been my fourth large VMware conference in-person in Barcelona. After two years holding the conference online due to the pandemic, it was good to back in-person and meet all the fellows again.
Reset/Unlock Photon OS root account
When upgrading an appliance, you need to login with the root account. From time to time the account get locked out either from entering the incorrect password or using some automation that uses the wrong password which leads both to locked account.
VMware Aria Automation Approval Policies
VMware Aria Automation, formerly known as vRealize Automation, is being used to request and subsequently build VMs. You’d like the requests to first be approved by your Server Team, how do you do it? Aria Automation Approval Policies, let’s take a look! Launch Service Broker from Aria Automation …Read More
VMware Advanced Design vSphere 7.x study links
Although vSphere 8 is released (GA) at VMware Explore Europe 2022 and modified exams can be expected, the vSphere 7 ones are still current. Also at Explore I took the Advanced Design VMware vSphere […]
Configure SSL in ESXi and LI-Agent to securely send logs via Cloud Proxy to vRea…
As part of the December release, vRealize Log Insight Cloud added SSL support for Cloud Proxy. You can now configure your log sources to forward logs over SSL to the Cloud Proxy. In this blog, I will walk through the procedure to configure the SSL in li-agent and ESXi to securely send logs via [..]
VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Networks
In 2020, VMware introduced an integration between vRealize Operations (vROps) and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), it was called the vRNI Management Pack and comes with vROps. The latest version is 8.10 and can be found under Data Sources – Integrations – Repository. We’re going to discuss the […]
Can you use vVols with Horizon VDI?
Can you use vVols with Horizon for VDI environments? Yes, yes you can, but there are some caveats.
Stripe Width Storage Policy Rule in the vSAN ESA
Should the “Number of disk stripes per object” storage policy rule be used for VMs running in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture? Read on to learn the answer!
Antrea Egress on vSphere 8 with Tanzu
Welcome to this new new blog post series about Container Networking with Antrea. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the Egress feature and show how to implement it on vSphere with Tanzu. According to the official Antrea documentation Egress is a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) which [..]
