Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi […]
There are two new tools to help understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are licensed based on physical CPU Cores for compute and total raw physical storage (TiBs) for vSAN.
SAP HANA on vSphere 8 with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) gained support last year. Initially, deploying SAP HANA as ‘half-socket’ sized VMs wasn’t supported by SAP, limiting deployment to a maximum of 2 SAP HANA production VMs on a 2-socket Sapphire Rapids server. […]
On VMware CMTY Podcast #686, WE April 3, Gareth Edwards, a key Community member and Solution Engineer at VMware Broadcom, explores the innovative Holodeck project—a fully automated lab with all the bells and whistles. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or new to home lab setups, this podcast offers […]
ESXi supports dual stack networking (IPv4 and IPv6) by default, however users can also configure just IPv4 or IPv6, which requires a system reboot for the changes to go into effect. Recently, I received a question from a colleague asking if there was a way to disable IPv6 during ESXi Kickstart […]
PowerCLI automation for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N)
With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1, customers can now take advantage of the new VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA (PAIF-N) solution, providing an optimized and validated platform by NVIDIA for running modern AL/ML workloads on VCF. To learn more about the PAIF-N solution for VCF, there is a comprehensive PAIF-N Guide […]
Project Cypress integrates generative AI into VMware’s lateral security solution, acting as a co-pilot when investigating threats.
