Operationalizing Your Public Cloud: Part 2 – Understanding Compute Reservations in Public CloudOperationalizing Your Public Cloud: Part 2 –...Compute reservations are one of the best ways to optimize public cloud usage and costs. But with so many choices across public cloud providers, it's difficult to know what options are best for your business. In this... Continue Reading →

Announcing the Project Monterey Early Access ProgramAnnouncing the Project Monterey Early Access...Last year at VMworld 2020 we announced Project Monterey, the next step in the evolution of VMware Cloud Foundation to meet the needs of next generation of applications. Project Monterey leverages the power of dynamic composability of hardware accelerators to improve the overall data... Continue Reading →

What are your thoughts on VMware's EVC mode?What are your thoughts on VMware's EVC mode?To EVC or not to EVC… that is the question!I personally always recommend it, and I am willing to sacrifice a bit of performance to have the flexibility to vMotion VMs live wherever and whenever I choose to (older/newer hardware, vmware... Continue Reading →

vSpeaking Podcast Ep. 184: Top 10 VMware Admin ToolsvSpeaking Podcast Ep. 184: Top 10 VMware Admin...Out of the numerous tools VMware admins use to monitor, manage and optimize their virtual environments, which ones are the most popular? Pete Flecha, Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware, set out to discover the top 10 admin tools of... Continue Reading →

What's your favorite VMworld 2021 session? Here is my "Top 5" ListWhat's your favorite VMworld 2021 session? Here...Again this year we'll have virtual VMworld. Yes, the pandemic situation isn't easy to get through. But VMware is throwing in a massive amount of sessions and learning tracks this year. The software portfolio of VMware reaches wider... Continue Reading →

Quick Tip - Preserving FQDN hostname on Photon OSQuick Tip - Preserving FQDN hostname on Photon OSOver the weekend, I was troubleshooting an issue that was reported by one of our VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) users who was helping with testing one of our upcoming features. The user found that after rebooting the VEBA... Continue Reading →

Preparing Let’s Encrypt SSL CertificatesPreparing Let’s Encrypt SSL CertificatesThe Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 certificate is missing from the fullchain.pem and chain.pem files, therefore errors such as the following prevent certificates from being imported by VMware appliances such as NSX-T and vCenter. This post summarizes how to fix this issue.VMware Social Media Advocacy

Benchmark Report on VMware NSX Advanced Load BalancerBenchmark Report on VMware NSX Advanced Load...Moving from appliance-based load balancers to software-defined VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancers could enable your organization to modernize load balancing services with efficient use of standard computing infrastructure and reduce overprovisioning.VMware Social Media Advocacy

vmLIVEs Next Week – Register Now for Your Daily DosevmLIVEs Next Week – Register Now for Your Daily...Bookmark the schedule for the vmLIVEs of interest today. This program consists of daily, live webcasts spanning a wide range of topics designed to drive our go-to-market priorities forward. Following are the top 5 vmLIVEs you may not... Continue Reading →

vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 1-3 Introduction to Super MetricsvRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy –...Using its native solutions and additional Management Packs vRealize Operations collects data about your entire environment including various metrics and properties to get you started with managing your Multi-Cloud infrastructure. The predefined metrics and properties address nearly... Continue Reading →