Exploring the new vSphere Privilege Recorder in vSphere 8.0 Update 1 Exploring the new vSphere Privilege Recorder in… Determining the minimum vSphere privileges that is required to perform a given vSphere operation (UI/API) has been a huge customer challenge to say the least. Strategies have included guessing along with trial and error by creating a custom vSphere Role and slowly removing privileges until you have […]

The Future of Work S1 E2: How Generative AI Will Impact Hybrid Work The Future of Work S1 E2: How Generative AI… VMware’s Bharath Rangarajan sits down with Stanford economics professor and work from home researcher Nick Bloom to discuss how artificial intelligence might impact the future of hybrid and remote work trends. VMware Report: https://www.vmware.com/learn/2251368_REG.html VMware End-User Computing Blog: blogs.vmware.com/euc/ VMware Explore 2023 Las […]

VMware CMTY Podcast #660 – Explore Barcelona with Matt, Corey, Eric VMware CMTY Podcast #660 – Explore Barcelona… Catch today’s (September 13) Community Podcast as hosts Eric Nielsen, Corey Romero and Matt Langguth as they talk all things VMware Explore Barcelona – Let’s get excited! VMware Social Media Advocacy

Synology NFS VAAI Plug-in support for vSphere 8.0 Synology NFS VAAI Plug-in support for vSphere 8.0 After sharing my recent Synology DS723+ setup for my Homelab, where I initially decided on using iSCSI storage since it had out of the box support for VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), I had received a number of comments and recommendations to actually stay away from […]

Migrate NSX Standard Load Balancer Workloads to NSX ALB using Avi Migration Tool… Migrate NSX Standard Load Balancer Workloads to… With the release of VMware NSX 4.0 VMware announced the deprecation of NSX standard load balancer and the intention to replace it with NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks). This is not quite a new message since the advise to adopt NSX ALB for […]

VMware Carbon Black Emerges as a Leader in Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 XDR Report VMware Carbon Black Emerges as a Leader in… Today’s volatile threat landscape has made every organization focused on staying a step ahead of attackers. According to Frost & Sullivan’s new Extended Detection and Response (XDR) 2023 report, VMware Carbon Black is more than helping enterprises keep ahead: we’re pushing the industry […]

Associated VLAN Port Group is missing after upgrading to ESXi 8 Associated VLAN Port Group is missing after… We were recently informed by the customer to patch and upgrade the vSphere infrastructure to the newest version due to some VA findings. If ESXi is administered via vCenter, the VMware Lifecycle Manager is the most recommended and appropriate alternative for ESXi fixes and upgrades. The upgrade […]

Quick Tip – New remote version of ESXCLI 8.x Quick Tip – New remote version of ESXCLI 8.x I was recently made aware of a nice update from our developers that we now have a new version of the remote ESXCLI utility that is much simpler to install across any operating system and is fully backwards compatibility with ESXi hosts running 6.7.x, 7.x and 8.x. […]

Evolution of vSphere ESX-OSData partition Evolution of vSphere ESX-OSData partition During my recent interaction with a customer, I came across some noteworthy partitioning alterations, particularly in versions 7.x and […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Retrieving vCenter Server certificate (Machine, VMCA Root, STS & Trusted Root) d… Retrieving vCenter Server certificate (Machine,… In the vSphere UI, users can easily view and manage all of their vCenter Server certificates by navigating to Administration->Certificate->Certificate Management as shown in the screenshot below. There are four types of vCenter Server certificates: Machine SSL, VMware Certificate Authority, […] VMware Social Media Advocacy