#077 – Introducing Data Services Manager 2.0…

#077 – Introducing Data Services Manager 2.0 featuring Cormac Hogan – The Unexpl…

#077 – Introducing Data Services Manager 2.0…

In this conversation, Duncan and Cormac Hogan discuss VMware’s Data Services Manager (DSM) and its role in offering data services in a full-stack private cloud. They cover topics such as the use cases for DSM, the integration with Kubernetes, the support for different databases, the automation […]


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Ensuring High Availability and Disaster…

Ensuring High Availability and Disaster Recovery in NSX-T Management Cluster – E…

Ensuring High Availability and Disaster…

This blog post will explore strategies to ensure high availability (HA) of NSX-T managers, outline the recovery process during failures, and discuss best practices for disaster recovery.


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Decoding vSphere (vCenter/ESXi), vSAN & Tanzu…

Decoding vSphere (vCenter/ESXi), vSAN & Tanzu License Keys

Decoding vSphere (vCenter/ESXi), vSAN & Tanzu…

For most users, you probably have a large collection of vSphere license keys that have been provisioned over the years and keeping track of the product SKU, entitled features and capacity can be a challenge, especially if you are just looking at the raw 25 character license string. While the […]


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🗳️ Your Voice, Your Choice: People’s Choice…

🗳️ Your Voice, Your Choice: People’s Choice Awards 2024 Las Vegas

🗳️ Your Voice, Your Choice: People’s Choice…

It’s on. June 10 — 21: People’s Choice Awards for Las Vegas Join us at VMware Explore Las Vegas, Nevada | The VenetianAugust 26 – 29, 2023 Exciting news awaits as we gear up for Explore 2024 Las Vegas. We’re thrilled to announce the return of the People’s Choice Awards, an opportunity for YOU, […]


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Multiple Environments in Aria Suite Lifecycle…

Multiple Environments in Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager

Multiple Environments in Aria Suite Lifecycle…

We’ve discussed the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) previously, along with all its benefits: upgrades, binary downloads, content management, and more. But did you know, you can have multiple Environments in ASLCM? That’s right, you can, let’s explore!I’ve had a single Environment in ASLCM […]


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vKaan – vSphere Health Check – Aria Operations…

vKaan – vSphere Health Check – Aria Operations Management Pack

vKaan – vSphere Health Check – Aria Operations…

vSphere Health Check is a management pack solution for maintaining the configurations of your vSphere environments. This package vKaan allows you to monitor Cluster HA and DRS configurations and identify non-identical objects. It also […]


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Edge Operations Require a Solution Built for…

Edge Operations Require a Solution Built for the Edge

Edge Operations Require a Solution Built for…

The edge is in transition as organizations look to modernize business operations at dispersed locations such as retail stores, factories, health clinics, and ships. As edge computing continues to gain momentum, enterprises are faced with the challenge of managing their edge devices and systems […]


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PowerCLI Commands to Manage ISOs before ESXi…

PowerCLI Commands to Manage ISOs before ESXi Maintenance

PowerCLI Commands to Manage ISOs before ESXi…

Sharing is caring, so hopefully you can learn from my experience and not make the same mistakes in your environment. If nothing else, take these PowerCLI snippets and grow. Caution. In my old environment, I would run this up to where I saw this Issue: Couldn’t put an ESXi host into maintenance […]


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Recieve VMware Aria Operations Alerts in…

Recieve VMware Aria Operations Alerts in Microsoft Teams

Recieve VMware Aria Operations Alerts in…

This blog is the follow-up to the one I wrote earlier this week about sending VMware Aria Operations for Logs alerts to Microsoft (MS) Teams. This article describes the steps to forward alerts from VMware Aria Operations (Aria Ops) to MS Teams.


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VCF Workload Mobility with HCX

VCF Workload Mobility with HCX

VCF Workload Mobility with HCX

Join us for an exclusive VMware Cloud Foundation Live, featuring special guests Heath Johnson, VCF Technical Marketing, and Gabe Rosas, Technical Product Manager for HCX. Together, we’ll explore the transformative power of VMware HCX in simplifying workload migration and enabling high-perform-[…]


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Set Your Implementation Up for Success with VCF…

Set Your Implementation Up for Success with VCF Jumpstart Workshops

Set Your Implementation Up for Success with VCF…

The nature of today’s technology landscape rewards businesses that understand the importance of a strong, strategic foundation combined with a plan for their cloud platform. When implementing VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF), assistance and guidance from a VMware expert at the onset of an […]


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VMware Live Recovery – Technical Overview part…

VMware Live Recovery – Technical Overview part 1

VMware Live Recovery – Technical Overview part…

Hi vAdmins and site reliability engineers, Welcome back! I have already written a few blogs about Ransomware Recovery. In this post I want to shift the focus to the architecture of Site Recovery.


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Effortless Certification Management:…

Effortless Certification Management: Introducing our revamped Certification Manager 2.0 Platform

Effortless Certification Management:…

Does managing your certifications ever feel like a juggling act? The process of managing multiple logins, searching for the correct information, and navigating confusing interfaces can be time consuming and frustrating. That is why we are excited to announce the launch of Broadcom’s new and improved Certification Manager 2.0 Portal. This convenient platform offers candidates … Continued The post Effortless Certification Management: Introducing our revamped Certification Manager 2.0 Platform…Read More


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Quick Tip – Retrieving NSX segment information…

Quick Tip – Retrieving NSX segment information from vCenter Server

Quick Tip – Retrieving NSX segment information…

Since vSphere 7.0, it has been much simpler to correlate between an NSX network segment defined in NSX Manager and its representation as a vSphere Distributed Virtual Portgroup (DVG) in vCenter Server as demonstrated in screenshot below using the vSphere UI. With the additional NSX information such as NSX Transport Zone ID, Transport Zone ID […]


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