Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift Extending my homelab with the vExpert gift People that follow me on Twitter, know that we (vExperts) received an awesome gift from Cohesity. During VMware Explore in Barcelona we received a NUC for our homelab. How cool is that, an excellent gift to extend my homelab. Content blog article Extra hardware Installing ESXi Download USB […] VMware Social […]

VMware Cloud Foundation – A Technical Overview | VMware VMware Cloud Foundation – A Technical Overview… Updated Dec. 2022: VMware Cloud Foundation is a hybrid cloud platform that provides a full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) that is made for modernizing data centers and deploying modern container-based applications. VCF integrates different components like vSphere (compute), vSAN […] VMware Social Media Advocacy

ESXi on AMD ChangWang CW56-58 ESXi on AMD ChangWang CW56-58 It can be pretty difficult to find an AMD-based small form factor (SFF) kit that is compatible with recent ESXi releases. The large majority of these AMD SFF kits all use Realtek for their onboard network adaptor and Realtek does not have a driver for ESXi, nor have they expressed any interests […] VMware Social […]

vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 fails with message ‘An error occurred while starting … vCenter upgrade at Stage 2 fails with message… Recently came across with a situation where upgrade to vCenter version 7.x was failing from version 6.7 with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ This issue arises in Stage 2 which is an essentially a mid-stage of an upgrade process, and […]

vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0U3g my fail with error ‘VMware tools drivers is n… vCenter upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0U3g my fail with… Recently at a customer site encountered an issue which I didn’t see before. while initially it looked like a VMware tools drivers issue against the vCenter 6.7 appliance (Photon OS), however it was far away from that, and it can become […]

Replace NSX(-T) self-signed certificates – mb-labs.de Replace NSX(-T) self-signed certificates –… Many of you are probably also annoyed by the certificate error message in the browser when you admin your NSX environment. Unfortunately, certificate handling in NSX is not very easy and has a few pitfalls. Therefore I would like to show you in the following tutorial how to replace the […] VMware Social Media […]

Cross connecting vSAN Datastores with HCI Mesh in vSAN 8 OSA Cross connecting vSAN Datastores with HCI Mesh… Yesterday I had a discussion internally on Slack about a configuration for a customer. The customer had multiple locations and had the potential to create various clusters within locations, or across locations. Now, as most of you know, I have been talking a lot about stretched clusters […]

Boosting the Signal from Space: MetTel Labs Deploys VMware SD-WAN over Starlink Boosting the Signal from Space: MetTel Labs… Stay up-to-date on the latest MetTel news and media mentions in the telecom space. Click here to read Boosting the Signal from Space: MetTel Labs Deploys VMware SD-WAN over Starlink. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Enabling the Remote Workforce with VMware SD-WAN, Starlink, and 5G Enabling the Remote Workforce with VMware… Using a combination of VMware SD-WAN, Starlink, and 5G can help organizations unlock the potential of their remote workforce by providing them with reliable and high-speed internet connectivity, enabling them to be more productive and efficient. VMware Social Media Advocacy