Rebuilding from the Break – Restoring the VMware Avi Controller
This article describes my made experiences with restoring the Avi controller. It demonstrates how easy and effective a restore procedure can be. As kind of bonus material, I also added two scripts to the article which can be used to backup the configuration backup-files to a remote location […]
How to Reset vCenter 8.0 Root Password – irgNET
Yep, there are still vCenter’s out there with expired root passwords. Therefore, I will describe the workaround to reset the root password for vCenter 8.0, which also works for vSphere 6.5 through today’s releases. First, take a snapshot of your vCenter VM: […]
Dell PowerStore: CPU utilization level too high. Reduce system load prior to NDU…
During a PowerStore Appliance upgrade, one of the most common warnings during a pre-upgrade health check (PUHC) is the message: CPU utilization level too high. Reduce system load prior to NDU: […]
VMware vSphere 8.0 U2b Released
There is a new patch you’ll have to apply to your virtual infrastructure. The patch is quite important as it fixes A LOT, especially the CBT fix that occurred after the U2a.
A Deep Dive into VMware vSphere vMotion Application Notification: Keeping Applic…
Ensuring application availability and performance during infrastructure maintenance is essential in the ever changing virtualization landscape. VMware’s flagship product, vMotion, allows virtual machines (VMs) to be moved between physical hosts without interruption. How about the programmes […]
VMware Cloud on AWS m7i: Performance of Microsoft SQL Server VMs
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 […]
Introducing Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Va…
Available now: The Validated Solutions Engineering team is excited to announce the general availability of our newest solution Intelligent Network Visibility for VMware Cloud Foundation. New to VMware Validated Solutions? A VMware Validated Solution is a well-architected and validated […]
Smaller vSAN ESA ReadyNodes to Accommodate VMware vSphere Foundation’s Trial Cap…
This post captures the very latest information in ReadyNodes certified for vSAN ESA configured in a vSAN HCI deployment.
Introducing VMware Identity Manager Cluster Auto-Recovery in VMware Aria Suite L…
We are excited to announce VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14 introduces an innovative capability known as “VMware Identity Manager Cluster Auto-Recovery”. The new ‘autorecovery’ service minimizes the use of the time-consuming ‘Remediate’ process from the Suite Lifecycle UI.
How To Apply Async Patch to VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1+ – Virtual Bytes
The VMware SDDC Manager async patch tool allows you to upgrade individual products outside of the standard VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) baseline. This tool can be used to upgrade products such as vCenter, NSX, and ESXi to newer versions without affecting the overall VCF deployment.
Determining new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) & VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) license usage in vSphere 8.0 Update 2b
vSphere 8.0 Update 2b was just released last week and with this release, customers can now take advantage of the new included 100 GiB trial vSAN storage capacity for each deployed VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) core for use with vSAN! Note: If you would like to understand how much vSAN storage you are entitled to […]
Quick Tip – Using ESXCLI to upgrade ESXi 8.x throws MemoryError or Got no data from process
Several users in the community have reported running into a memory error issue when attempting to upgrade their standalone ESXi hosts using this ESXCLI trick, which has been possible since ESXi 5.1 back in 2012. [MemoryError] Please refer to the log file for more details. Initially, I was not able to reproduce in my lab […]
Dell and Broadcom’s Continued Commitment to VxRail Customers
Paul Turner- Vice President Product Management, BroadcomGil Shneorson- Senior Vice President Solutions Platforms Dell Technologies With Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware now finalized, Dell Technologies and Broadcom want to reaffirm their dedication to their customers, including those of VxRail. [..]
Congrats to all VMware by Broadcom vExpert 2024
A big congratulation to all the vExpert accredited for year 2024 that is announced! This year we have a total of 1226 vExperts and you can find them here. Those who didn’t make it or miss the application, fear not. The 2nd application period will be in Jun 2024.
Automated Aria Suite (Lifecycle, Identity, Operations, Logs & Automation) Lab De…
I recently got reacquainted with the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) solution, which makes it easy for anyone to manage the deployment, configuration and lifecycle for the complete Aria suite of products including Aria Identity, Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs and Aria Automation.
VMware vCenter Server Converter 6.6 Released
VMware, after a public beta period, has released a new version of conversion tool that every VMware admin knows – VMware vCenter Server Converter 6.6 Released is the title of today’s post. As you know, VMware converter can do P2V or V2V. The software is FREE and can help you to convert from […]
New Pricing Policy
Hot off the press, VMware Aria Operations 8.16 is here, bringing enhancements and exciting features. Amidst these upgrades, I want to highlight one particular change, Pricing Policy!
VMware EUC by Broadcom to be Acquired by KKR
The global investment firm KKR has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the EUC Division from Broadcom. The EUC Division will operate as a stand-alone company under KKR, ensuring ongoing commitment to customers and maintaining FedRAMP cloud-hosted solutions, with plans to transition […]
Configure Security Features in vSAN – 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. […]
Broadcom creates single-vendor SASE from VMware and Symantec
Broadcom is swinging into the competitive single-vendor secure access service edge (SASE) market with technologies from its two acquisitions, VMware and Symantec. The vendor rebranded VMware’s SD-WAN as VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN and integrated it with Symantec’s security service edge (SSE) […]
