vSphere Distirbuted Services Engine Overview LightboardvSphere Distirbuted Services Engine Overview...What is vSphere Distributed Services Engine, and how does it work.VMware Social Media Advocacy

VMware Aria Cost New Rightsizing Engine Now Available for EC2, RDS, and VMsVMware Aria Cost New Rightsizing Engine Now...Overprovisioning in the cloud Many businesses still maintain an on-premises mentality where the mindset that the cost of running infrastructures is fixed. Unfortunately, that mindset doesn’t translate well to the cloud, where you pay for the resources... Continue Reading →

HCX - How to create Service Mesh and connect sitesHCX - How to create Service Mesh and connect sitesToday I return to my HCX Series to try to complete HCX Series in the following weeks. In this third HCX – How to create Service Mesh and connect sites about HCX Series blog post, I will... Continue Reading →

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Data Network IssueNSX Advanced Load Balancer Data Network IssueWhen configuring the NSX Advanced Load Balancer for some testing in my Home Lab. I noticed something odd related to the service engines management network and data network settings. After thinking I was crazy… I saw an issue in the interface surrounding the... Continue Reading →

Usage Portal Improvements in VMware Aria Operations for ApplicationsUsage Portal Improvements in VMware Aria...With the recent release of the VMware Aria Operations for Applications product we have made some improvements to the Usage Portal. In addition to the dashboard for analyzing overall usage, VMware Aria Operations for Applications supports ingestion policies for usage by particular... Continue Reading →

#vSphere+ OverviewvSphere+ OverviewAn overview of vSphere+ highlighting the ease of onboarding.VMware Social Media Advocacy

VMware HCX – common misconceptions and unsupported configuration – chrisdooks.co...VMware HCX – common misconceptions and...This is a post covering some things which I regularly see in the field. I’ll endeavour to keep this updated as new releases come out. The below is currently correct (as far as I know) with HCX 4.6. Always refer to... Continue Reading →

vSAN ESA ReadyNode configurations are more flexible than you think!vSAN ESA ReadyNode configurations are more...I had a discussion at the Dutch VMUG yesterday about the ReadyNode configurations for vSAN ESA. The discussion was about how difficult it was to select a host and customize it. It was then that I realized that most people hadn’t... Continue Reading →

VCF Holodeck Toolkit OverviewHolodeck Toolkit OverviewVLC Holodeck Toolkit Overview | The VMware Cloud Foundation Lab Constructor (VLC) Holodeck Toolkit is designed to provide a scalable, repeatable way to deploy nested VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) hands-on environments directly on VMware ESXi hosts. These environments are ideal [...]VMware Social Media Advocacy

VMware Nested Virtualization and VLANs on Azure VMware Solution Using NSX Overla...VMware Nested Virtualization and VLANs on Azure...I've encountered challenges with VLAN tagging virtual ports (vSwitch or DVS) in the nested environments when the VMware Cloud environment (where the nested environment lives) uses the NSX-T Overlay Backed Segments. So why does anyone need such a... Continue Reading →