vSAN Architecture Overview & SetupvSAN Architecture Overview & SetupWhat’s New in vSAN 8.0 vSAN 8.0 is a major milestone release that includes a new architecture option for new vSAN clusters, and there are now two distinct ways to configure a vSAN cluster. New in vSAN 8.0 is the Express Storage Architecture (ESA), which optimizes the... Continue Reading →

How vRealize Operations helps size new vSphere ClustersHow vRealize Operations helps size new vSphere...In ESXi Cluster (non-HCI) Rightsizing using vRealize Operations I have described how to use vRealize Operations and the numbers calculated by the Capacity Engine to estimate the number of ESXi hosts which might be moved to other clusters or decommissioned. The corresponding... Continue Reading →

VMware CMTY Podcast #632 - Community EU Round Table - Home Labs and Expectations for 2023VMware CMTY Podcast #632 - Community EU Round...Community EU Round Table for 2023 Expectations with hosts Eric Nielsen and Corey Romeo, plus guests Gareth Edwards, Aleksandra Todorovska, Lino Telera & Wouter Kursteen. From Wednesday, Jan. 20.VMware Social Media Advocacy

How to bootstrap vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) on unsupported hardware?How to bootstrap vSAN Express Storage...I was recently chatting with a fellow colleague who asked an interesting question about the memory overhead between running vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) versus the new vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) from a VMware Homelab perspective. I honestly did... Continue Reading →

What’s New in VMware Aria Guardrails – January 2023What’s New in VMware Aria Guardrails – January...The January release of VMware Aria Guardrails has arrived and introduces a few updates that will be covered in this post. Dry run a Template against an Azure environment Create a Template from an existing Azure environment The release cadence... Continue Reading →

A Big Update on VMware Aria Operations 8.6A Big Update on VMware Aria Operations 8.6A look into what's new in the Aria Operations 8.6 release with Peter Haagenson and Matt Bradford. For more information and to try Aria Operations today, check out https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-operations.html For more great VMware Aria Cloud Management Demos check out https://pathfinder.vmware.com/VMware Social... Continue Reading →

Project Radium Workflow for Data ScientistsProject Radium Workflow for Data ScientistsDemonstrates that data scientists using the remote accelerators in a Project Radium pool can operate solely from their own machine and with unmodified container images.VMware Social Media Advocacy

What’s New in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance 2.1What’s New in VMware Telco Cloud Service...VMware is pleased to announce the availability of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance release 2.1. This latest version of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance— released on January 19, 2021—brings together key feature upgrades and new capabilities. VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance... Continue Reading →

Update to my scripted installation of TAP (version 1.4 now also supported)Update to my scripted installation of TAP...In November last year I published article on an scripted installation of Tanzu Application Platform (TAP). This article is based on TAP 1.3, and uses scripts that I published on GitHub. With the recent release of TAP 1.4,... Continue Reading →

Feature Friday Episode 120 - VMware Container Service Extension 4.0Feature Friday Episode 120 - VMware Container...Container Service Extension 4.0 went GA in Dec with the introduction of a new technical stack and feature set that delivers value for developers with advanced compute capabilities and improved resilience and scalability to provide increased flexibility. Watch this Feature... Continue Reading →