Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading to ESXi 7.0Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading...Several folks in the community had reported issues that after upgrading from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0, their Samsung NVMe PCIe SSDs were no longer showing up. The first report of this was from Ivo Beerens and eventually found... Continue Reading →
Quick Tip – Allow unsupported CPUs when upgrading to ESXi 7.0Quick Tip – Allow unsupported CPUs when...As outlined in the vSphere 7.0 release notes (which everyone should carefully read through before upgrading), the following CPU processors are no longer supported: Intel Family 6, Model = 2C (Westmere-EP) Intel Family 6, Model = 2F (Westmere-EX) To... Continue Reading →
Top 20 KB articles for vSAN, March 2020Top 20 KB articles for vSAN, March 2020How to manually remove and recreate a vSAN disk group using esxcli vSAN Health Service – Cluster Health – vSAN Health Service up-do-date Moving a vSAN cluster from one vCenter Server to another How to add a host back to a... Continue Reading →
What’s New for the VMware Cloud on AWS PowerCLI ModuleWhat’s New for the VMware Cloud on AWS PowerCLI...With the recent release of PowerCLI 12.0, a handful of new cmdlets were added for use with VMware Cloud on AWS to gather information about your organization and assist with managing your SDDC clusters: Get-VmcOrganization Get-VmcSddcCluster New-VmcSddcCluster Remove-VmcSddcCluster... Continue Reading →
Remote Exam Testing Is Here!Remote Exam Testing Is Here!VMware Certification is pleased to announce that remote proctoring of its exams, delivered by Pearson VUE, will be available starting April 20, 2020. Remote proctoring allows you to take the exam from ANY secure location, and will be a permanent offering, regardless of the availability of in-person... Continue Reading →
Configuring Multi-Organization Tenancy in vRealize Automation 8.1 - Part 2Configuring Multi-Organization Tenancy in...Configuring Multi-Organization Tenancy in vRealize Automation 8.1 - Part 2VMware Social Media Advocacy
New features with NSX-T 3.0 - Federation and Kubernetes on vSphereNew features with NSX-T 3.0 - Federation and...VMware released NSX-T 3.0 today with some interesting features. In my opinon, the most important are below: Modern Apps Networking: NSX-T for vSphere with Kubernetes, container networking and securityVMware Social Media Advocacy
vSAN File Services considerationsvSAN File Services considerationsAdvertise here with BSA I was looking into vSAN File Services this week as I had some customers asking about requirements and constraints. I wanted to list some of the things to understand about vSAN File Service as it is important when you are designing and configuring it. First... Continue Reading →
vSphere 7 – vSGX & Secure EnclavesvSphere 7 – vSGX & Secure EnclavesVirtualization is a pretty revolutionary idea, adding a layer of software to help us solve other problems in IT. From a risk perspective, though, it adds more things to track. This isn’t to say that ESXi is insecure – far from it. ESXi... Continue Reading →
Should Automatic Rebalancing be Enabled in a vSAN Cluster?Should Automatic Rebalancing be Enabled in a...vSAN 6.7 U3 introduced a new method for automatically rebalancing data in a vSAN cluster. Some customers have found it curious that this feature is disabled by default in 6.7 U3 as well as vSAN 7. Should it be enabled in... Continue Reading →
