Enterprise Strategy Group Whitepaper: Accelerate Innovation and Transform Operations with VMware vSphere+™ Enterprise Strategy Group Whitepaper:… The rise of “Everywhere IT” The relentless digitization of nearly all aspects of business operations and customer engagement activities has increased demands on IT and cloud operations teams across all organizations’ locations. Cloud adoption is a vital part of this IT modernization trend. ESG research reveals that the average […]

Create/Show/Delete Snapshots with ESXi CLI – irgNET Create/Show/Delete Snapshots with ESXi CLI -… In various situations (mostly in the context of automation), I have been asked by DevOps colleagues how to take a snapshot of a VM via CLI. The whole thing works with a vim-cmd command. You need access via SSH to the respective ESXi server, then we list all available VMs: Then we […]

VxRail 8 Cluster Expansion VxRail 8 Cluster Expansion In this post I will show how to expand the release 8 of VxRail Cluster. The expansion requires that the new node has been physically cabled to the cluster. When we power on a new node that is connected to the same network as the VxRail cluster, this node is automatically discovered by VxRail […] VMware Social […]

Database Backup, Restore and Recover in VMware Data Services Manager Database Backup, Restore and Recover in VMware… In this post, I want to look at how VMware Data Services Manager implements backup, restore and recover operations. I also want to highlight the difference between a restore operations and a recover operation since they are significantly different. We will look at these operations from the point […]

Ansible Semaphore: Awesome Open Source Ansible GUI Ansible Semaphore: Awesome Open Source Ansible GUI Explore the power of Ansible GUI with Ansible Semaphore for efficient IT automation. Learn to install, configure, and run playbooks with ease. VMware Social Media Advocacy

How to Update VMware VCSA 8 Offline via patch ISO – irgNET How to Update VMware VCSA 8 Offline via patch… An easy Update way for dark sites, security customers and poor internet bandwith datacenters. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Top VMware Home Lab Configurations in 2023 Top VMware Home Lab Configurations in 2023 Explore top VMware home lab configurations for 2023! Dive into VMware Workstation, ESXi, vSAN, and more to boost your virtualization skills. VMware Social Media Advocacy

vSphere UI behavior change for VM Disk I/O Shares & Limits in vSphere 8.x vSphere UI behavior change for VM Disk I/O… If you use the vSphere UI to configure individual virtual disk I/O shares or limits for a Virtual Machine, it looks like this functionality has been removed in vSphere 8.x in favor of using VM Storage Policies, which has been around for almost […]

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Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCGW) for vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Frequently asked scenarios about vCenter Cloud… This is a multi-part blog series on some of the frequently asked questions and scenarios for the vSphere+, vSAN+ and VCF+ Cloud Services. What started out as a single blog post that attempted to summarize some of the learnings and notes that I have made while […]