VMware Announces VMware Explore 2023 Dates and Locations
VMware has announced the dates for VMware Explore 2023, the company’s flagship customer event for all things multi-cloud. VMware Explore will be hosted August 21 – 24, 2023 at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center, Las Vegas, NV, and November 6 – 9 at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain.
ACPI motherboard layout requires EFI – Considerations for switching VM firmware …
One of the important settings to consider when creating a new Virtual Machine in vSphere is the VM firmware, which can either be BIOS or EFI and can be configured under VM Options->Boot Options->Firmware. After selecting the desired guest operating system (GOS) in vSphere, the system will […]
NVIDIA & VMware: A Partnership Driven by Innovation
To meet the needs of their customers, NVIDIA leverages VMware so their customers can jumpstart their transformation to AI. NVIDIA and VMware share a strong partnership built on innovation, delivering top graphics performance to their customers. #NVIDIA #VMware #AI #innovation
New VMmark Results Featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and vSpher…
We are pleased to announce that two new VMmark results from Hewlett Packard Enterprise have been published today featuring 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) and VMware vSphere 8. The results can be seen in context on the VMmark results page, but here is a summary:
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Take advantage of our current Beta courses to get a head start on your professional growth goals! The VMware beta program is open to anyone who wants to participate in the finalization of the almost complete course. With 50% off, you get the same valuable VMware training that qualifies you for […]
Configuring NVMeoF TCP
This article will detail the process of setting up NVMe-TCP in vSphere.
2023 NSX Ninja Program For Customers
The 5 day VMware NSX Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Ninja program provides in depth coverage of networking use cases. This program is a comprehensive look at NSX architecture and components that support switching, routing, VPN, load balancing, container networking, and multi-site networking [..]
Migrating to the Express Storage Architecture in vSAN 8
The vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) in vSAN 8 does not have a direct, in-place upgrade path for a cluster running the Original Storage Architecture (OSA). Learn why this is the case, and how you can easily adopt the ESA into your environment.
Deploy Harbor registry with signed certificates using Cert-Manager, Let’s Encryp…
Harbor is a perfect option if you want to run a private registry. In this post we will look at the deployment of Harbor on vSphere with Tanzu (TKGs). We will expose the Harbor instance to the outside world through ingress and we will leverage signed certificates using Cert-Manager in […]
Nested ESXi installation using HTTPS boot over VirtualEFI in vSphere 8
In vSphere 7.0 Update 2, an enhancement was made to the Virtual Machine’s UEFI firmware called VirtualEFI that would enable ESXi to run in a VM (Nested ESXi) and perform an HTTP Boot given the ESXi bootloader URL without requiring any traditional PXE infrastructure. This was especially useful […]
VMware Horizon 8 2212 release brings new efficiencies to Horizon
The 2212 release for Horizon is now available and delivers the much-anticipated Apps on Demand capability for published app deployments, as well as features that increase the efficiency of Horizon, improve the end-user experience, and provide support for Digital Employee Experience […]
VMware Cloud on AWS Promotion for 2/3 Node i4i.Metal
A promo for 2/3 node i4i.metal went into effect on December 12, 2022. New customers and eligible current i3.metal and i3en.metal customers could benefit from a 20 percent discount on up to three hosts of i4i.metal when quoting in CPN. Please refer to the pricing page for more details.
Dashboard Overview (AWS) – VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth
As part of our “Introduction to the Platform” series, this video will walk you through an overview of the pre-made Dashboards we have inside of VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
How to verify VMware HCX firewall access rules
Most VMware HCX deployments fail due to one or more blocked ports. It is always tricky and time-consuming to troubleshoot these issues. This article tries to solve this trivial problem with a Python script.
How to recover ESXi installed on USB device after disabling vmkusb module?
I have to say, this is one of the more interesting challenges that I have come across in quite some time. A user was looking for assistance after they accidentally disabled the vmkusb module, which is the USB driver for ESXi and allows it to communicate with USB devices that are connected […]
How To Use the vSAN Quick Sizer for Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA)
In this video, we walk through using the vSAN QuickSizer. The vSAN Quicksizer is a quick way to validate the usable capacity of a specific cluster configuration. This is in contrast to the traditional sizing tool workflow where you bring a workload requirement and have the sizer recommend […]
SRM Environment variable to control custom script runs only on actual recovery
I had a use case to have an isolated T1 in recovery site and I need that T1 will be attached to my recovery site T0 via script only on the actual recovery. I use Site recovery manager isolated network to run my test recovery so my script must not run on the test recovery. I found there […]
Applying additional security hardening enhancements in ESXi 8.0
While responding to a few ESXi security configuration questions, I was referencing our ESXi Security documentation, which includes a lot of useful information and latest best practices. It is definitely worth re-reviewing this section from time to time to take advantage of all the ESXi security […]
Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 2
In part 2, I’ll continue the configuration of Aria through API’s. And as promised I’ll also dig a bit deeper into some more advanced options with Postman. In case you forgot, the 3 places where you can find more information about API calls: […]
The following VIBs on the host are missing from the image and will be removed fr…
I’ve seen a few people being confused about a message which is shown when upgrading ESXi. The message is: The following VIBs on the host are missing from the image and will be removed from the host during remediation: vmware-fdm(version number + build number). Now this happens when you use […]
