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He focuses on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration, and Operation for the VMware Cloud-based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC) in this blog. William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware.
WilliamLam.com
2d ago
In a VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A) environment, a default CloudAdmin vCenter Server Role is provided to customers to manage and deploy workloads in vCenter Server. Typically, this vCenter Server Role is only granted to limited number of Cloud Administrators within your organization, which you get to control as an end user. VMware also supports ..read more
WilliamLam.com
5d ago
The number of Arm-based hardware kits has grown significantly in the last couple of years. Today, there are many more options to choose from including different form factors and even hardware from some of the more traditional x86 vendors, which also demonstrates the market opportunity and the demand for Arm-based workloads. Running ESXi-Arm is definitely ..read more
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1w ago
If you are converting an Oracle VirtualBox VDI (Virtual Disk Image) to a VMDK for use with VMware ESXi, you might come across the following error: Unsupported or invalid disk type 2 for 'scsi0:0'. Ensure that the disk has been imported The invalid disk type 2 is typically a giveaway that the VMDK was mostly ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1w ago
Here is another tidbit on how you can leverage the power of vSphere Events, which now includes over 2K+ as of vSphere 8.0 Update 1 to help monitor when an ESXi filesystem and/or partition is low on disk space. With vSphere 6.7 or later, we have two events that you can use to help alert ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1w ago
After successfully confirming the new non-binary 48GB DDR5 SODIMM modules (96GB total) is fully functional with any DDR5 capable system, I started receiving questions about which DDR5 kits are currently available today and that can also be used with ESXi? The ASUS PN64-E1 is definitely a top contender for anyone in the market for a ..read more
WilliamLam.com
2w ago
There are not many small form factor kits out there right now that supports Thunderbolt 4, so I was really interested in what ASUS had to offer with their release of the PN64-E1. I have actually never worked with an ASUS kit before, so I was definitely looking forward to getting my hands on one ..read more
WilliamLam.com
2w ago
vSphere with Tanzu has received an exciting update with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 1, which removes the restriction for requiring NSX-based networking to deploy Supervisor Services. This is really cool because customers with only a VDS based Supervisor can now also get the benefits of the various Supervisor Services that vSphere with Tanzu ..read more
WilliamLam.com
2w ago
For the past couple of weeks, I have been investigating some issues reported by the community when using ESXi with the popular Google Coral Edge TPU for accelerating machine learning (ML) inferencing. Fortunately, with the help from one of our engineers, Songtao, we were able to find a solution! You can find the complete write-up ..read more
WilliamLam.com
2w ago
Back in February of this year, I had shared that non-binary 24GB and 48GB SODIMM memory was finally available, but I quickly realized that the news from Samsung was only for traditional memory modules and not the laptop SODIMM memory, which is also commonly used in small form factor systems like an Intel NUC. Three ..read more
WilliamLam.com
3w ago
Using Nested Virtualization and specifically Nested ESXi, which is running ESXi inside of a VM, has become so automatic and second nature for me and many in the VMware community, that I sometimes forget we still have brand new users who are experiencing ESXi for the very first time. Nested ESXi is an extremely powerful ..read more