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VMware vSAN Storage Policies inside out – Part 2 – Virtualization and Cloud Comp… VMware vSAN Storage Policies inside out – Part… This is part 2 of the vSAN storage policies posts. We discussed the “Site Disaster Tolerance” option in the Availability tab and we’ll continue with the “Failure to Tolerate” option. […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

VMware Ransomware Recovery – stand-out development across all vendors this year VMware Ransomware Recovery – stand-out… GigaOm Radar for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity as a Service v2.0. By Alastair Cooke VMware Social Media Advocacy

Applying additional security hardening enhancements in ESXi 8.0 Applying additional security hardening… While responding to a few ESXi security configuration questions, I was referencing our ESXi Security documentation, which includes a lot of useful information and latest best practices. It is definitely worth re-reviewing this section from time to time to take advantage of all the ESXi security […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Quick Tip: Add additional Components to the Image for ESXi Hosts provided by vSp… Quick Tip: Add additional Components to the… Today I wanted to update the Nvidia drivers to GRID 15, vGPU15 in my Lab. Therefore I was faced with the challenge, how do I get these drivers respectively VIB modules into the image which is provided for my vSphere cluster by the Lifecycle […]

Aria Automation Config Integration with Aria Automation Templates Part 1 Aria Automation Config Integration with Aria… Aria Automation – http://bit.ly/3fttsiS In this video, we’ll show you how to integrate VMware Aria Automation Templates with VMware Aria Config. This will allow you to use the power of automation to quickly and easily configure your VMware infrastructure. Want to learn more about this topic and see code […]

vSphere Replication Calculator vSphere Replication Calculator There are many factors that influence bandwidth requirements for VMware vSphere Replication, e.g, the amount of changed data, the frequency of data changes, and the recovery point objective (RPO) configuration for each replicated virtual machine. vSphere Replication Calculator is a good tool […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Cloud Director 10.4.1 Theming and Branding Cloud Director 10.4.1 Theming and Branding VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 has an entirely new user interface where providers can create, manage and assign themes for their tenants and the provider portal. In the past VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 theming and branding was API based, now with this new release customisation can be done […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Tutorial – Create Custom #ESXi ISO using #vCenter Auto Deploy #VMware Tutorial – Create Custom #ESXi ISO using… Today, I show how to use the ESXi Auto Deploy functionality in the vCenter to create a custom ESXi ISO image. You can import an ESXi base image and your custom driver bundles, and then incorporate custom drivers into the bundle using Auto Deploy. By Piotr Tarnawski. […]

Video of ESXi install workaround for Fatal CPU mismatch on feature for Intel 12th Gen CPUs and newer Video of ESXi install workaround for Fatal CPU… I have been noticing more and more users that have acquired hardware that includes the latest Intel 12th Generation CPU (Alder Lake) and even the newest Intel 13th Generation CPU (Raptor Lake) for use with ESXi. Starting with the […]

What’s New in VMware Aria Operations* – January 2023 What’s New in VMware Aria Operations* – January… *Formerly vRealize Operations Happy New Year! With this new year comes a new release of VMware Aria Operations (SaaS). We have many new and exciting features including new high availablility for application monitoring using Telegraf, new public cloud actions for Automation Central, enhancements for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution […]