It's here, the industry-first Emulex Secure Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)! Thanks to zero, trust, quantum-resistant, session-based network encryption, customers now have cost-effective, easy-to-manage solutions for both protecting against crippling ransomware attacks and complying with data encryption mandates. We're excited for you to explore how this technology can drive more value and impact for... Continue Reading →

Virtually Speaking: Best Practice or Bug?Virtually Speaking: Best Practice or Bug?In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, we explore the fascinating origins of IT best practices with Cody Hosterman, Sr. Director of Product Management at Pure Storage. Cody shares insights on how many best practices were born out of real-world challenges—often solving for bugs... Continue Reading →

Retrieve VCF Operations Appliance Root Password from the VMware Aria Suite Lifec...Retrieve VCF Operations Appliance Root Password...When you deploy a component using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, it stores the credentials in it's locker. If you need to SSH to a VCF Operations appliance and you dont know the root password, you need to retrieve the... Continue Reading →

vSphere with Tanzu (VKS) integration with NSX-T Part-4vSphere with Tanzu (VKS) integration with NSX-T...vSphere with Tanzu (VKS) integration with NSX-T Part-4 In the first part of this series, we enabled vSphere with Tanzu on a compute cluster. This allowed developers to use this cluster to run K8s and container-based applications. Vsphere with Tanzu leverages the... Continue Reading →

Deploying an additional vSAN cluster in a VCF Management Domain - Step-by-Step W...Deploying an additional vSAN cluster in a VCF...In a previous blog, I performed a Commission of 3 ESXi hosts, see Commission VCF ESXi hosts in SDDC Manager – Bulk Import w/ JSON – Sargon Khizeran and for the following steps, I will use... Continue Reading →

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Capture VM Rightsizing Data with the Aria Operations APICapture VM Rightsizing Data with the Aria...One of the main pillars of Aria Operations is Capacity Planning: Assesssing, Reclamation, and Rightsizing. Rightsizing gives us visibility into capacity available to be reclaimed, should we rightsize our VMs. It presents that data at the Datacenter and Cluster levels via... Continue Reading →

Using AI to perform boring VMware vSphere tasksUsing AI to perform boring VMware vSphere tasksRecently I have been thinking more and more about AI and I wondered if it was possible to use AI to automate boring administrative tasks in vSphere. First I though to use some Generative AI to provide instruction on how to... Continue Reading →

Aria Automation – Change IP address – vTAMAria Automation – Change IP address – vTAMSince I am reorganizing my homenetwork, I wanted to move the Aria Products in their own network and created an extra VLAN with another IP subnet. In this blog I will share my experience with changing the IP address of my... Continue Reading →

VIDM – Change IP address – vTAMVIDM – Change IP address – vTAMSince I am reorganizing my homenetwork, I wanted to move the Aria Products in their own network and created an extra VLAN with another IP subnet. After describing my experience with changing the IP address for Aria Automation in a [previous blog], in... Continue Reading →