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Save the Date for VMware Explore 2023 Save the Date for VMware Explore 2023 We’re excited to announce the next event dates and locations for VMware Explore 2023! August 21 – 24, 2023 The Venetian Convention and Expo Center | Las Vegas, Nevada November 6 – 9, 2023 Fira Gran Via | Barcelona, Spain Download the calendar invite and block your schedule off now! FAQS […]

What Is VMware Horizon Cloud Service – Next-Gen? What Is VMware Horizon Cloud Service – Next-Gen? This introduction describes key features and provides a general understanding of how Horizon Cloud – next-gen has been architected, with automation in mind. Various integrations, including with Workspace ONE Intelligence are discussed, with accompanying screenshots. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Learn about the vExpert Program & Join our Public Q&A on January 11th @ 9am PST Learn about the vExpert Program & Join our… We are holding a public call for anyone to join in the conversation on vExpert. You can join to ask questions and meet vExperts from your country. This is a round table open forum for anyone to join. Questions can be […]

VMware Leads HCI Market (Q3 2022) VMware Leads HCI Market (Q3 2022) Storage Review reports that VMware led in IDC’s latest version of the Worldwide Converged Systems tracker for Q3 2022. VMware was the only vendor to surpass the billions in sales number and had nearly double the market share of Nutanix, which placed second. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift People that follow me on Twitter, know that we (vExperts) received an awesome gift from Cohesity. During VMware Explore in Barcelona we received a NUC for our homelab. How cool is that, an excellent gift to extend my homelab. Content blog article Extra hardware Installing ESXi Download USB […] VMware Social […]

VMware Cloud Foundation – A Technical Overview | VMware VMware Cloud Foundation – A Technical Overview… Updated Dec. 2022: VMware Cloud Foundation is a hybrid cloud platform that provides a full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) that is made for modernizing data centers and deploying modern container-based applications. VCF integrates different components like vSphere (compute), vSAN […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

ESXi on AMD ChangWang CW56-58 ESXi on AMD ChangWang CW56-58 It can be pretty difficult to find an AMD-based small form factor (SFF) kit that is compatible with recent ESXi releases. The large majority of these AMD SFF kits all use Realtek for their onboard network adaptor and Realtek does not have a driver for ESXi, nor have they expressed any interests […] VMware Social […]

vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 fails with message ‘An error occurred while starting … vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 fails with message… Recently came across with a situation where upgrade to vCenter version 7.x was failing from version 6.7 with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ This issue arises in Stage 2 which is an essentially a mid-stage of an upgrade process, and […]

vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0U3g my fail with error ‘VMware tools drivers is n… vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0U3g my fail with… Recently at a customer site encountered an issue which I didn’t see before. while initially it looked like a VMware tools drivers issue against the vCenter 6.7 appliance (Photon OS), however it was far away from that, and it can become […]

Replace NSX(-T) self-signed certificates – mb-labs.de Replace NSX(-T) self-signed certificates –… Many of you are probably also annoyed by the certificate error message in the browser when you admin your NSX environment. Unfortunately, certificate handling in NSX is not very easy and has a few pitfalls. Therefore I would like to show you in the following tutorial how to replace the […] VMware Social Media […]