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 […]

One Step Onboarding to Monitor Multiple Cloud Accounts using VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds One Step Onboarding to Monitor Multiple Cloud… Many organizations are quickly growing their cloud footprint across multiple cloud providers. Rapid growth brings about more security risks that require greater visibility across various cloud environments and teams in an organization. VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds helps organizations scale cloud security […]

A Big Update on VMware Aria Operations 8.6 A Big Update on VMware Aria Operations 8.6 A look into what’s new in the Aria Operations 8.6 release with Peter Haagenson and Matt Bradford. For more information and to try Aria Operations today, check out https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-operations.html For more great VMware Aria Cloud Management Demos check out https://pathfinder.vmware.com/ VMware Social Media Advocacy

Using Tag-Based SPBM Policies to Manage Your Storage Using Tag-Based SPBM Policies to Manage Your… In this SPBM series (Storage Policy Based Management), we will review and explore the many options for using SPBM to manage your virtual storage. SPBM policies are categorized into three main areas; Storage Capabilities and Services, Data Services, and Tags. ​​​​​​​ VMware Social Media Advocacy

How To Use the vSAN Quick Sizer for Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA) How To Use the vSAN Quick Sizer for Express… In this video, we walk through using the vSAN QuickSizer. The vSAN Quicksizer is a quick way to validate the usable capacity of a specific cluster configuration. This is in contrast to the traditional sizing tool workflow where you bring a workload requirement […]