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Photon OS 5.0 Beta: Get Your Hands on the Latest Update Today! Photon OS 5.0 Beta: Get Your Hands on the… Introduction: Photon OS is an open-source Linux operating system designed for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure. It is optimized to run containers, offering a minimal footprint and fast boot times. Photon OS provides a secure environment for deploying […] VMware Social Media […]

PowerCLI one-liner to find storage devices not configured for round robin PowerCLI one-liner to find storage devices not… We recently audited all of our storage configurations and got a lot of mileage out of the following PowerCLI one-liner. This script checks all hosts connected to your vCenter for remote LUN’s that aren’t using the round robin PSP. HP recommends round robin for their 3PAR arrays, […]

Aria Operations for Logs (formerly Log Insight Cloud) & Oracle audits: Helping y… Aria Operations for Logs (formerly Log Insight… Dealing with Oracle audits can be a complicated affair. When running Oracle on a VMware virtual environment, there are times that you need to prove to Oracle that your database virtual machines have not migrated to unlicensed ESX clusters. If you don’t have the data […]

VMware Aria Operations Custom Properties VMware Aria Operations Custom Properties I want to use VMware Aria Operations Automation Central to rightsize our VMs during maintenance windows. To make that easier, I’d like to put tags on my VMs, specifically vROps Tags, not vSphere Tags. Exploring vROps Tags, they aren’t exactly what I want. In fact, they present as a parent […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Introducing VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Services 1.1 Introducing VMware Cloud Director Extension for… This video will demonstrate the latest features of VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions 1.1. VMware Social Media Advocacy

vSAN ESA is using more CPU cycles than vSAN OSA? vSAN ESA is using more CPU cycles than vSAN OSA? Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had conversations with customers and partners who have been running performance benchmarks against both vSAN ESA and vSAN OSA. As you can imagine, people want to compare version 8 of OSA against version 8 of ESA, and that […]

Automated ESXi Installation with a USB Network Adapter using Kickstart Automated ESXi Installation with a USB Network… I have been working with the Project Keswick team for quite some time now, which is an OCTO project is lead by my good friend Alan Renouf, who is doing some really innovative work with ESXi at the edge and application deployment using a desired state engine. Recently […]

VMware Validated Solutions – Jan 2023 Update VMware Validated Solutions – Jan 2023 Update Welcome to the January 2023 update for VMware Validated Solutions. We are excited to share the release of a brand-new solution this month as well as an expansion to Password Policy Management for Identity and Access Management. Highlights for this update include: New Solution – Cloud-Based […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

What Is VMware ESXi and Which Operating Systems Does It Support? What Is VMware ESXi and Which Operating Systems… Wondering about VMware EXSi and how it works? We’ve got you covered. VMware Social Media Advocacy