Protecting and Recovering Business Critical Applications VMware Live RecoveryProtecting and Recovering Business Critical...This is a walk-through of how to configure protection and recovery for protected workloads in VLR. It goes through how to access VLR from vCenter, where to set up VLR pairing, resource mappings, VM replication, Protection Group and Recovery Plan and creating recovery... Continue Reading →

How To Perform Real Recovery With VMware Live Recovery | This is a Demo of how to perform Real Failover (Planned Migration) with VLR. It shows how VLR is used to failover Production Domain Controllers and clustered MS SQL Server workloads, without any administrative intervention beyond what's pre-configured before the DR event.How To Perform Real... Continue Reading →

Automate Your Helm Chart Assessment: Introducing the BSI Action for Renovate Pull RequestsAutomate Your Helm Chart Assessment:...On a recent blog called Beyond the Pull Request: How to Confidently Assess a Bitnami Helm Chart Update for Your Production Cluster, we discussed that GitOps and automation tools have come a long way to facilitate frequent updates for... Continue Reading →

How Network I/O Delays Suffocate Your ContainersHow Network I/O Delays Suffocate Your ContainersHow Network I/O Delays Suffocate Your Containers in the world of microservices and Kubernetes, containers promise agility, scalability, and efficiency. We package our applications, deploy them, and expect lightning-fast performance. But [...]Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

STOP attaching the ISO — this vSphere 8 → 9 upgrade FAILS #vmware #upgrade #vexpertSTOP attaching the ISO — this vSphere 8 → 9...Upgrading vSphere / vCenter from 8 to 9 is not a minor update — and this is where many admins get caught. In this video, I break down why attaching a vCenter... Continue Reading →

NVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Part 7: Advanced ConfigurationNVMe Memory Tiering Design and Sizing on VMware...This is the final installment of our series on Memory Tiering. In previous posts, we covered the architecture, design, sizing, and basic setup among other topics. Now, we’re diving into the advanced configuration. These... Continue Reading →

VMware Cloud on AWS – What’s New – January 2026 | PenguinPunk.netVMware Cloud on AWS – What’s New – January 2026...I posted last month about what’s new in VMware Cloud on AWS, particularly as it related to the host usage API and changes to the VMC Sizer tool. It’s a new calendar year, but the... Continue Reading →

Continuous Compliance in Private Cloud: VMware Salt | In this episode of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, hosts Pete Flecha and John Nicholson welcome Vincent Riccio, VMware automation expert, for a deep dive into SaltStack automation and its role inside VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Advanced Services.Continuous Compliance in Private Cloud: VMware...In this episode of the Virtually... Continue Reading →

Unlock Hyper-Density: Cosmonic Wasm on vSphere Kubernetes ServiceUnlock Hyper-Density: Cosmonic Wasm on vSphere...In the rapidly evolving landscape of platform engineering, the shift from heavy virtual machines to containers was just the first step. Today, we are witnessing the next leap forward: WebAssembly (Wasm). Cosmonic, built on the foundations of the CNCF incubating project wasmCloud, is... Continue Reading →

Spring Office Hours: S5E03 - Getting Started with Spring 📱Spring Office Hours: S5E03 - Getting Started...Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter for a foundational episode of Spring Office Hours dedicated to everyone starting their journey or looking to refine their setup in the Spring ecosystem. In this episode, "Getting Started with Spring," the guys strip... Continue Reading →