Daniel Micanek virtual Blog – Like normal Dan, but virtual.
The vExpert program, initiated by VMware by Broadcom, is a community recognition initiative that honors individuals for their substantial contributions to the VMware community. Open to anyone passionate about VMware products and services, the program seeks those who actively share their […]
Nested ESXi continues to be an invaluable resource that I use on almost a daily basis from solution prototyping, customer reproduction to automated lab deployments supporting both VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), the use cases are simply endless! While you can […]
Using Nested ESXi for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain fails with vSAN ESA Auto Disk Claim
As of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.0, you can now use the new vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) when deploying a VCF Workload Domain where as in earlier releases, only the vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) was supported, which is typically what I deploy for testing purposes. While working on some enhancements to my VCF Automated […]
By default, SDDC Manager uses the online VMware Depot for downloading all software updates (security, patch, upgrade) for life-cycling a single VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) instance. SDDC Manager can also support air-gapped or disconnected environments by leveraging the VCF Offline Bundle […]
Introduction | In Previous blog, we covered Static routing on NSX-T Tier-0 router with Active-Active mode. In this blog, we will cover OSPF configuration on NSX-T Tier-0 router to achieve North-South connectivity. […]
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is an add-on SKU on top of VMware Cloud Foundation. NVIDIA AI Enterprise software licenses will need to be purchased separately. It utilizes NVIDIA NIM – part of NVIDIA AI Enterprise […]
vSphere 8 esxcli Storage Commands CommandDescriptionOptions Helpstorage core adapter listList all the SCSI Host Bus Adapters on the system.–help Show the help message.storage core adapter rescanRescan SCSI HBAs to search for new Devices, remove DEAD paths and update path state. This operation […]
To prevent ESXi from PSOD’ing when an Intel Hybrid Consumer CPU is detected with non-uniform capabilities, a workaround can be applied to ignore the uniformity miss-match which is needed before the ESXi installer fully boots up and also after the initial reboot. For those looking to fully […]
With the introduction of the ESXi Configuration Store back in vSphere 7.0 Update 1, all ESXi configuration changes should be managed using either the configstorecli for an individual ESXi host or leveraging the new vSphere Configuration Profiles (VCP) for scale with vCenter Server. For certain […]
VMware Desktop Hypervisor products Fusion and Workstation are used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers. They give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn […]
