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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
6d ago
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 ..read more
WilliamLam.com
2w ago
Similar to my blog post on character limits for the different types of vSphere Inventory Objects, here is a quick look on some VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Objects and their respective character limits. While looking into this topic, I was pleasantly surprised to find that some of the rename workflows in SDDC Manager UI includes ..read more
WilliamLam.com
3w ago
With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1, customers can now take advantage of the new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) solution, providing an optimized and validated platform by NVIDIA for running modern AL/ML workloads on VCF. To learn more about the PAIF-N solution for VCF, there is a comprehensive PAIF-N Guide ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
While updating and testing my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment Script to support the latest VCF 5.1.1 release, I came across a strange error message in the Cloud Builder UI about uploading the personality to SDDC Manager: Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager It turns ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1 was just released this week and it brings a number of new capabilities including the recently announced VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA solution. One feature that I was really happy to see get introduced is called "License Later" better known as evaluation mode, which will now allow users to deploy ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
After deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain using the VCF Holodeck Toolkit, which leverages Nested ESXi, I noticed the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VMs kept failing to power on and threw the following error message: No host is compatible with the virtual machine I thought this was quite strange, especially since the ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi firewall is already configured with these ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
A few weeks back, I had a request from one of our Technical Adoption Managers (TAM) that their customer wanted to create a custom ESXi VIB that could be used with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) and would only require the ESXi host to reboot as part of the remediation. This might sound like a strange ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
ESXi Scripted Installation (Kickstart) has been my go-to method for achieving zero-touch provisioning of ESXi hosts at scale, which I had started using back in the ESX 2.5 days when I was a customer! Having worked at some very larger enterprises, I got the opportunity to experience and manage a variety of environments for automated ..read more
WilliamLam.com
1M ago
Automation scales Operations, that is a phrase that I have used several times today in various conversations with colleagues and customers. I truly believe organizations can scale more efficiently and consistently when leveraging Automation and not be afraid of it or worse, attempting to avoid it at all cost! In fact, Automation is a super ..read more