Update vSAN Cluster – Virtualization Blog

Update vSAN Cluster – Virtualization Blog

Update vSAN Cluster – Virtualization Blog

This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. You can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide using the following link. In this post, I want to update my vSAN Cluster from version 8 to version 8 Update 2. Updating vSAN is a multistage process. You must update […]


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Optimizing Networking and Security Performance…

Optimizing Networking and Security Performance Using VMware vSphere and NVIDIA B…

Optimizing Networking and Security Performance…

In 2022, VMware launched the capability to run vSphere on DPUs, which allows vSphere to offload networking and NSX services to a DPU like NVIDIA BlueField. In a previous VROOM blog post, we discussed the advantages of using NVIDIA’s BlueField DPU with VMware vSphere 8. In this iteration, we […]


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VMware Cloud on AWS m7i: Performance of…

VMware Cloud on AWS m7i: Performance of Microsoft SQL Server VMs

VMware Cloud on AWS m7i: Performance of…

We recently announced the new m7i instance type of VMware Cloud on AWS, which uses networked NFS storage instead of vSAN. This gives you flexible and scalable storage based on VMware Cloud Flex Storage and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. For other VMware Cloud on AWS instance types, vSAN storage […]


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Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 2

Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 2

Aria Operations and ServiceNow Part 2

In our previous blog we explored how to send Aria Operations Alerts to ServiceNow as Incidents, but we weren’t able to populate the Configuration Item (CI) of Incidents, which is potentially the most important field available. So, how are we going to do that, Webhooks! Go to Configure – […]


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Navigating the new license changes and upgrade…

Navigating the new license changes and upgrade paths with VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation

Navigating the new license changes and upgrade…

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of three key topics that are likely top of mind for many VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation customers: 1. Exploring the New Unified License Model The release of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1 and vSphere 8.0U2b marks the beginning of the transition to a new unified licensing … Continued The post Navigating the new license changes and upgrade paths with VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation appeared first on VMware…Read More


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NSX-T Troubleshooting – Packet Capture

NSX-T Troubleshooting – Packet Capture

NSX-T Troubleshooting – Packet Capture

Introduction | In this blog, we will discuss and capture network packet at different NSX-T capture points. Inside datacenter, there are 2 types of traffics (East-West and North-South) . We define intra Data center traffic as East-West traffic and Inbound/Outbound traffic from data center as […]


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Removing inaccessible objects in vSAN -…

Removing inaccessible objects in vSAN – Virtualization Blog

Removing inaccessible objects in vSAN -…

During several reboots of hosts in my lab, the vCLS virtual machine became inaccessible. However, a new one has been created, but old objects still exist in the vSAN. I see inaccessible objects in virtual objects. In this post, I want to show you how to remove such an inaccessible object in vSAN.


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VMware Tanzu Application Service 6.0 Brings…

VMware Tanzu Application Service 6.0 Brings GenAI Updates and Boosts Developers …

VMware Tanzu Application Service 6.0 Brings…

Tanzu Application Service Platform continues to provide enterprises and organizations with a turnkey, integrated modern application platform that deploys at the speed of business reliably across clouds with little to no downtime.


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Shut Down and Power On vSAN Cluster -…

Shut Down and Power On vSAN Cluster – Virtualization Blog

Shut Down and Power On vSAN Cluster -…

This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. You can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide using the following link. One of the cool features of vSAN is the Shutdown Cluster Wizard, which assists you in shutting down the vSAN cluster for maintenance or […]


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Minimum vSphere privileges to install or remove…

Minimum vSphere privileges to install or remove patch from ESXi

Minimum vSphere privileges to install or remove…

I recently got a question from our field inquiring about the minimum vSphere privileges that would be required to either install or remove a patch (VIB/Component) from an ESXi host. The customer was interested in using PowerCLI and specifically the ESXLI interface to automate the installation and removal of a VIB and wanted to create […]


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VMware Cloud on AWS Optimizations in…

VMware Cloud on AWS Optimizations in Storage-bounded environments. Part 1. Reduc…

VMware Cloud on AWS Optimizations in…

It’s no secret that many infrastructures in VMC on AWS are bounded by storage capacity rather than compute resources. That is, the number of hosts is determined by the usable capacity requirements on the cluster, […]


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VMware Perpetual License EOA Support

VMware Perpetual License EOA Support

VMware Perpetual License EOA Support

If you have not read this blog from Broadcom by Hock Tan check it out. It helps to outline few things that has been confusion for many. First, the old perpetual licensing from any vendor including VMware, are sold in two parts. […]


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Pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations

Pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations

Pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations

We’ve been pulling vCenter Events into Aria Operations for years, but I’ve never been able to determine exactly which ones, I finally found it! The vCenter Events imported into Operations by the vCenter Adapters can be found in a file called eventlist.txt which is located on your Primary Node […]


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Infrastructure as a Code- Configuring Tier-0…

Infrastructure as a Code- Configuring Tier-0 Gateway HA VIP using Terraform

Infrastructure as a Code- Configuring Tier-0…

Introduction In this blog, we will configure Tier-0 gateway as active-standby and leverage the HA VIP to configure static routing and VIP address on it using terraform. We have already discussed about terraform couple of times. Please refer below blogs, in which we already showcased config-[…]


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VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services for DBaaS…

VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services for DBaaS and Private AI

VMware Cloud Foundation Data Services for DBaaS…

Last February, we were excited to announce that Data Services Manager was part of VMware Cloud Foundation, our full-stack private cloud solution. This powerful combination empowers your developers to be more productive. By embracing cloud-native and AI technologies, they can deliver apps and […]


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Examining the VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA Vision – theCUBEResearch

Examining the VMware Private AI Foundation with…

This theCUBE Research Whitepaper examines how VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA can unlock Gen AI and unleash productivity. Today, organizations require a new type of Private AI tuned and fine-tuned on domain-specific data. This requires organizations to take steps to protect this info-[…]


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