Holodeck Lab: Multi-Tenancy routing with VRF’s in NSX – My Software Defined Data… Holodeck Lab: Multi-Tenancy routing with VRF’s… The Holodeck Lab is up and running and some of the components have been replaced by pfSense. This has been described in a couple of blogs. Now it’s time to start working on the use cases I wanted to explore with this lab. The first one […]

Introducing the Super Metrics Repository _ thecloudxpert.net Introducing the Super Metrics Repository _… In this post, I introduce my new Super Metric Repository which will be stored in my GitHub repository. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

Changing the Datastore Type of a Commissioned ESXi host in VCF [Video] – Sargon … Changing the Datastore Type of a Commissioned… Did you select the incorrect Datastore type when commissioning an ESXi host? I was going through this as I was trying to deploy a second cluster in my Management Domain and thought “Oh No!” I previously imported hosts using JSON [Blog] and had […]

5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t Know You Could Get (Perfect for … 5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t… Learn how to build an effective AI workstation with refurbished hardware for optimal performance without overspending. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

Using Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry to deploy an app & connect to a DB _ vikt… Using Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry to… In a previous post I showed how to deploy an app to Tanzu Platform and bind a Postgres database using a Kubernetes runtime. This whole concept is originally came from Cloud Foundry, so let’s take a look at how it’s done […]

BGP Peering NSX Tier-0 with Ubiquiti UDM Pro – Sargon Khizeran BGP Peering NSX Tier-0 with Ubiquiti UDM Pro -… After several months, attempts, and VCF rebuilds to get BGP peering with VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, and my Ubiquiti Unifi network, it finally happened. I wanted to share my experience. This required a lot of help from internal rock star TAMs in our organization, external […]

vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI – Part 2 – Environment Build and … vSphere Supervisor Networking with NSX and AVI… Welcome to Part 2 of the blog series on vSphere Supervisor networking with NSX and AVI. In the previous article, we discussed the networking and load balancing architecture covering the different topologies for supervisor clusters, vSphere namespaces with custom network topologies, […] Broadcom […]

VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail – Walkthrough (Part 8: VI WLD ‘Reduce Cluster’) _ davidring…. VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail – Walkthrough (Part 8: VI… This post provides a detailed walkthrough of the procedure for decommissioning a host from a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2.1 environment running on VxRail within a VI Workload Domain (WLD). While there are multiple use cases […] Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

NetApp – The Intelligent Data Infrastructure NetApp – The Intelligent Data Infrastructure This week marks my 90 days in NetApp. It was truly an eye opener to what thought to be a storage company can do beyond just data storage. NetApp has evolve over the years and with the amount of R&D and investment made to its portfolio that I believe most are not aware […]

Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025 Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025 Learn about the best GPU for AI tasks in your home lab. Find the perfect model for budget-friendly AI performance. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy