What Happens When You Place a vSAN Host in Maintenance Mode?What Happens When You Place a vSAN Host in...Ensure your data when a host is in maintenance mode What happens when you place a host from a vSAN cluster in maintenance mode? Let’s dive in and give some insights on this matter, especially as there... Continue Reading →

Deep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2 Nested Lab deploymentDeep dive into VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2...In my last blog post, I gave a very high-level overview of deploying a nested VCF lab using the VLC. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, Click here Part 2 will review the architecture and... Continue Reading →

Update to Guidance on VMware vSphere & Microsoft AD LDAP (ADV190023)Update to Guidance on VMware vSphere &...Customers who are using Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as an authentication source for VMware vSphere and other VMware products have been tracking the announcements from Microsoft that the March 2020 Windows Updates would change the default behavior of the... Continue Reading →

Using PowerCLI to automate the retrieval of VCSA Password PoliciesUsing PowerCLI to automate the retrieval of...I hope that every vSphere administrator or operator by now is familiar with the extremely powerful vSphere Guest Operations API functionality (details here and here), which can easily be consumed using PowerCLI's Invoke-VMScript cmdlet. If not, highly recommend you check... Continue Reading →

Velero 1.3.0-beta.1 is out!Velero 1.3.0-beta.1 is out!Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes - vmware-tanzu/veleroVMware Social Media Advocacy

Introducing Horizon + VMware Advanced Load BalancerIntroducing Horizon + VMware Advanced Load...Today we are happy to announce that VMware Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) can now seamlessly integrate with VMware Horizon and is available as an add-on license. This is a significant performance and monitoring boost for virtual desktop interface (VDI) systems. VDIs, like... Continue Reading →

Getting started with VCF Part 8 – PKS CertificatesGetting started with VCF Part 8 – PKS CertificatesI decided to dedicate a post to taking care of the Enterprise PKS prerequisites when deploying on VMware Cloud Foundation, namely the creation of the various certificates needed for trusted communication between the Enterprise PKS components (Operations Manager, BOSH,... Continue Reading →

CNS for vSphere Inside VMware Cloud on AWSCNS for vSphere Inside VMware Cloud on AWSKubernetes and the version.next(‘cloud-native’) application space is rapidly evolving. Nowhere do we see these lines blurred more than within VMware Cloud on AWS. This is because the service realizes the promise of a real Hybrid cloud. It is enabling customers to... Continue Reading →

Certification Upgrade Policy UpdateCertification Upgrade Policy UpdateAlong with the change in the recertification policy in February 2019, VMware has introduced a couple of easier ways to upgrade your previous certifications. The different upgrade paths for 2020 will be listed on our website within the next few weeks; this blog will help outline the general upgrade... Continue Reading →