Ansible Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a TemplateAnsible Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine...One of my teammates from another project had a requirement of deploying a clone VMware Virtual Machine from a template using Ansible. In the last hour additional requirements they wanted to process clones of multiple VMs with different types of... Continue Reading →

vMotion of Oracle RAC on VMware with Change Block Tracking (CBT)vMotion of Oracle RAC on VMware with Change...Business Critical Oracle Workloads have stringent IO requirements and enabling, sustaining, and ensuring the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission critical Oracle applications to meet the demanding business SLA’s,... Continue Reading →

Episode 036: vSphere 8 Core storage update with Jason Massae!Episode 036: vSphere 8 Core storage update with...These are my favorite episodes to record… Talking core storage for vSphere 8 with Jason Massae is always fun, as you know you will get to hear details you hadn’t heard yet. Jason discussed the new VASA specs, vVols,... Continue Reading →

Announcing Host-based Firewall and Prevention Enhancements in the Carbon Black C...Announcing Host-based Firewall and Prevention...VMware Carbon Black has long been recognized as a leader in cloud-native security technology. We pioneered EDR then expanded the platform to allow customers to identify risk, prevent attacks and detect and respond with one solution.VMware Social Media Advocacy

Configuring HA for PostgreSQL in VMware Data Services Manager (Video)Configuring HA for PostgreSQL in VMware Data...I created a short video on how to cluster a standalone PostgreSQL database in VMware Data Services Manager. PostgreSQL is a very popular virtualized workload to run on vSphere infrastructure. In this video, you will see how easy it is... Continue Reading →

vSphere with Tanzu using Intel Arc GPUvSphere with Tanzu using Intel Arc GPUAfter successfully passing through the new Intel Arc 750/770 GPU to both a Linux and Windows VM running on ESXi, which also includes keyboard/mouse access and video output to an external monitor, I wanted to see if our vSphere with Tanzu solution could... Continue Reading →

Measuring Tenant Consumption for VMware Tanzu Services for Cloud Services ProvidersMeasuring Tenant Consumption for VMware Tanzu...VMware Tanzu – a portfolio of products and services for building, running, and managing modern applications on any cloud – gained significant traction in 2022 among our VMware Cloud Services Providers. And why wouldn’t it? According to Gartner, “By 2027,... Continue Reading →

Discover New and Updated Software-Defined WAN (SDWAN) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Hands-on LabsDiscover New and Updated Software-Defined WAN...Operating and maintaining multi-cloud connectivity is becoming more complex and cumbersome across increasingly distributed organizations. VMware SDWAN leverages cloud-hosting to simplify deployment and management of network devices and employs traffic steering to applications in the data... Continue Reading →

Transition .VHDX to .VMDK and run Windows 11 Arm (Public Beta) on VMware Fusion ...Transition .VHDX to .VMDK and run Windows 11...We all love Windows (don’t we? 🙂 ) and need an instance even if we have a Mac. This used to be easy if you have a Mac running with Intel x86 processor and... Continue Reading →

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