VMware vExpert and VMUG Advantage Benefits for your career VMware vExpert and VMUG Advantage Benefits for… VMware vExpert program gives you an unique opportunity for IT admins to get in touch with this amazing community of people which you can get in touch with, learn more about VMware products, get more recognition in your job, and access to some goodies such as VMware 365 Days […]

VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) – Self Driving Operations for Multi-Cloud Ops VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize… VMware Social Media Advocacy

What can I change about a vSAN ESA Ready Node? What can I change about a vSAN ESA Ready Node? I’ve had half a dozen people asking about this over the past weeks, it really seems more and more people are at the point of adopting vSAN ESA (Express Storage Architecture. When they look at the various vSAN ESA Ready Node configurations what stands out […]

VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison VMware Resource Pool vs Cluster Comparison. A look at these two different technologies and how they work together to manage resources. VMware Social Media Advocacy

VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 VMware has announced General Availability of VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 last November. VMware Cloud Director Availability VMware Cloud Director Availability is a powerful solution used by VMware Cloud Providers to offer simple, secure, and cost-effective onboarding, migration, and […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

Disable the re-registering of HA disabled VMs on other hosts! Disable the re-registering of HA disabled VMs… Years ago we had various customers that complained about the fact that they had VMs that were disabled for HA and that these VMs would not be re-registered when the host they were registered on would fail. I can understand why you would want the VMs to be […]

Resizing a Linux partition: Photon OS VM on vSphere Resizing a Linux partition: Photon OS VM on… Adding disk space to a Linux VM can be a lot more complex than expected. Please find below an explanation on how to extend the size of the root partition of a Photon OS VM running on vSphere. The resize is done without unmounting the partition (but there […]

VMware Aria Automation 8.11 is Now Available VMware Aria Automation 8.11 is Now Available VMware Aria Automation 8.11 is now generally available containing several enhancements and new features throughout the product. VMware Social Media Advocacy

ESXi with Intel Arc 750 / 770 GPU ESXi with Intel Arc 750 / 770 GPU I have to say, the @IntelGraphics team does a very nice job on their packaging! Look forward to kicking the tires on their new Arc GPUs, luckily this fits nicely in the Intel 12 Extreme NUC (Dragon Canyon) 😁 pic.twitter.com/DHTC93pzmc — William Lam (@*protected email*) (@lamw) January 21, 2023 […]

How to bootstrap vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) on unsupported hardware? How to bootstrap vSAN Express Storage… I was recently chatting with a fellow colleague who asked an interesting question about the memory overhead between running vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) versus the new vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) from a VMware Homelab perspective. I honestly did not know the answer as I […] VMware […]