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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.
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1d ago
While catching up on post-Explore email, I received a question from a customer who has a large number of vSAN deployments spanning their ROBO environment. In one of their environment, they had some physical congestion issue that caused some problems for their vSAN stretched cluster and they were looking for a way to monitor the ..read more
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4d ago
The big news from last week at VMware Explore Las Vegas was the announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9! For those that attended the VCF Division Keynote 3 Transformations for the Smarter Way to Cloud, you got to hear more about VCF 9 directly from both Krish Prasad (General Manager of VCF Division) and ..read more
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1w ago
VMware Explore Las Vegas 2024 officially wraps up today! I thoroughly enjoyed the event and had fantastic conversations with customers, partners and colleague! The VMware Explore team has already been hard at work in getting all sessions published into the free on-demand catalog, which is available for or EVERYONE to watch, but also new this ..read more
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3w ago
Simliar to my ESXi Advanced and Kernel Settings reference, I was recently asked about creating one for vCenter Server to capture all the default out of the box advanced settings. With some automation in place, I deployed all major releases of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) from 6.7 to 8.0 which is available in this ..read more
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1M ago
If you are running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in a lab using Nested ESXi and you attempt an upgrade workflow, you may find the following upgrade pre-check fail with the following message: VSAN SCSI controller is not VMware certified You might think you are out of luck, but it is actually pretty straight forward to bypass ..read more
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1M ago
One very interesting capability that I had noticed while reading the the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 release notes are new VCF APIs for auditing PCI Compliance. VCF users can now use a new set of APIs that audit VCF configuration for compliance with 9 relevant PCI-DSS controls In addition to exploring these new ..read more
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1M ago
As someone who is always on the lookout for interesting and clever ways to make the most out of your vSphere homelab investment, I was surprised there has not been more noise about the new NVMe Tiering capability in vSphere 8.0 Update 3!? NVMe Tiering is currently in Tech Preview and it enables ESXi to ..read more
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1M ago
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 had just GA'ed last week and it is a packed release with a ton of new capabilities! Creating a brand new VCF environment (greenfield) is generally much easier than converting an existing vSphere-based environment (brownfield) into a compliant VCF environment, which can be quite challenging and our users have been ..read more
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1M ago
Since the introduction of the License Later feature with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1, I typically deploy my VCF lab without needing any license keys and simply take advantage of the built-in 60 day evaluation period. I was doing some testing recently with the latest VCF 5.2 release, which had just GA'ed last week and ..read more
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1M ago
vCenter Server Events are extremely powerful and contains a ton of useful information, especially for auditing and compliance purposes. As of vSphere 8.0 Update 3, there are over 2.1K+ out of the box events with many more through 2nd and 3rd party integrations. One of my favorite vCenter Server Event is the VmReconfiguredEvent as it ..read more